Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Interpretation- In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - 1[ (a) “appellate authority” means an authority appointed by the appropriate Government by notification in the functions of an appellate authority under this Act: Provided that in the relation to an appeal pending before an Industrial Court or other Authority immediately before the commencement of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Amendment Act, 1963 (39 of the 1963), that court or authority shall be deemed to be the appellate authority;] (b) “appropriate Government” means in respect of Industrial establishments under the control of the Central Government, that Government may , either on a reference made to it by the employer or the workman or a trade union or other representative body of the workmen, or on its own after giving the parties an opportunity of being heard, decide the question and such decision shall be final and binding on the parties;] (c) “Certifying Officer” means Labour Commissioner or regional Labour Commissioner, and includes any other officer appointed by the appropriate Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to perform all or any of the functions of a Certifying Officer under this Act;] (d) “employer means the owner of an industrial establishment to which this act for the time being applies, and includes- (i) in a factory, any person named under 5[clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7, of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)], as manager of the factory; (ii) in any industrial establishment under the control of any department