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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (1) "apprentice" means a person, aged not less than twelve years, whom an employer employs in his service for training by himself or by any other person for any trade or calling; 1A[(1A) "big establishment" means a shop or commercial establishment which employs twenty or more employees.] (2) "child" means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year; (3) "closed" means not open for the service of any customer or open to any business connected with the establishment; (4) "commercial establishment" means a commercial or industrial or trading or banking or insurance establishment, an establishment or administrative service in which the persons employed are mainly engaged in office work, hotel, restaurant, boarding or eating house, cafe or any other refreshment house, a theatre or any other place of public amusement or entertainment and includes such other establishment as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a commercial establishment for the purposes of this Act, but does not include a factory to which all or any of the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948) apply; (5) "day" means the period of twenty-four hours beginning at mid-night: Provided that in the case of an employee whose hours of work extend beyond mid-night, day means the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such employment commences; 1B[(6) "employee" means a person wholly or principally employed in, and in connection with any establishment and includes an apprentice or any class of persons as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be an employee for the purposes of this Act;] (7) "employer" means a person owning, or having ultimate control over the affairs of an establishment and includes the manager, agent or other person acting in the general management or control of an establishment; 1C[(8) "establishment" means a shop or commercial establishment which may be a small establishment, a medium establishment or a big establishment.] (9) "inspector" means an inspector appointed under this Act; 1D[(9A) "Labour Administrator" means an officer of the Labour department of the State notified as Inspector under this Act; (9B) "Labour Commissionerate Automation System" means a software owned and operated by the Labour department to cater end to end solutions to the employers, employees and Labour Administrators;] (10) "leave" means leave provided for in Chapter III of this Act; 1A[(10A) "medium establishment" means a shop or commercial establishment which employs six or more, but less than twenty employees.] (11) "opened" means opened for the service of any customer or to any business connected with the establishment; (12) "period of work" means the time during which an employee is at the disposal of the employer; (13) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (14) "prescribed authority" means the authority prescribed by rules made under this Act; (15) "shop" means any premises where any trade or business is carried on or where services are rendered to customers, and includes offices, store-rooms, godowns or warehouses, whether in the same premises or otherwise, used in connection with such trade or business but does not include a commercial establishment or a shop attached to a factory where the persons employed in the shop are allowed the benefits provided for workers under the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948); 1A[(15A) "small establishment" means a shop or commercial establishment which employs no employee or not more than five employees.] (16) "spread over" means the period between the commencement and the termination of the work of an employee on any day; (17) "week" means the period of seven days beginning at mid-night on Saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the prescribed authority; (18) "year" means a year commencing on the first day of January. Inserted by Act 3 of 2015 (w.e.f. 29/08/2014). Inserted by Act 34 of 2018 (w.e.f. 04/10/2018). Substituted by Act 3 of 2015 (w.e.f. 29/08/2014). Inserted by ACT 20 OF 2021, published in K.G.Ext. No. 3332, dt.14/11/2021 (w.e.f. 09/11/2020).