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Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) "employer" includes the occupier and the manager of a plantation or a factory or an establishment; (b) "establishment" means an establishment to which the provisions of this Act have been extended under section 1, sub-section (5); (c) "Certifying Surgeon" means a qualified medical practitioner appointed as such for purposes of this Act; (d) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (e) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under section 14; * Received the assent of the President on the 3rd November, 1957 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No.117 dated 9th November, 1957. 3 (f) "worker" in relation to a factory has the same meaning assigned to it by the Factories Act, 1948, and in relation to a plantation or in relation to any other establishment means a person employed directly or through an agency whether for hire or not, to do any work, skilled or unskilled, manual or clerical or any person so employed under a contractor engaged in the execution of the whole or any part of any work which is ordinarily part of the trade or business of the employer, but does not include a person whose total emoluments exceed three hundred rupees per mensem or any member of the managerial staff, that is to say, the Manager, Assistant Manager, or other Agent of the employer; (g) "plantation" means any estate which is maintained for the purpose of growing cinchona, rubber, coffee, tea or cardamom, and (i) which is fifty acres or more in extent; or (ii) in which fifty or more persons are employed or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months for that purpose; (h) "maternity benefit" means the amount of money payable under the provisions of this Act to a woman employed in a plantation or a factory or an establishment; (i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and (j) "woman" means a woman worker.