Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless is everything repugnant to the subject or context, (a) child means a person who has completed his fourteenth years; (b) closed means not open for the service of any customer or to any business connected with the establishment; (c) commercial establishment means an establishment in which there is conducted the business of advertising commission forwarding or commercial agency a department of a factory in which persons are employed in a cliental capacity in any room or place or no manufacturing process is being carried on a clerical department of any industrial or commercial undertaking including public transport any insurance company, joint stock company, brokers office or exchange or such other establishment or class thereof as the State Government may, by notification, declared to be a commercial establishment for the purposes of all or any of the provisions of this Act, but does not include a shop or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (d) day means the period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; Provided that in the case of an employee whose hour or work extend beyond midnight, day means the period of twenty-four hours beginning when such employment commencement; (e) Employee means a person employed either whole time or part time whether directly or through any agency, and whether for wages or other consideration or in connection with any establishment an includes an apprentice but does not include a member of the Employees Family; (f) employer means a person owning or having ultimate control over the affairs of an establishment and includes the manager, agent or other person or other person acting in the general management; (g) establishment means a shop or a commercial establishment or an establishment for public establishment or amusement; (h) establishment for public entertainment or a amusement means a restaurant eatin, house, cate, cinema, theatre and such other establishment or class thereof the State Government may, by notification declare to be, for the purposes of this Act an establishment for public entertainment but does not include a shop or a commercial establishment; (i) holiday means a period of six consecutive hours between the hours of half past seven Oclock and meridian and seven Oclock past meridian. (j) Inspector means an inspector appointed under section 19 or this Act; (k) leave means leave provided in Section 11,12 & 13 of this Act; (l) notification means a notification published in the official Gazette; (m)opened means opened for the service of any customer or to any business connection with the establishment; (n) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (o) rules means rules made by the State Government under this Act; (p) shop means any premises where goods are sold either by retail or wholesale or where services are rendered to customers and includes an office, a storeroom godown or warehouse whether in the same premises or otherwise used in connection with such trade or business, workshops including automobile garages accumants establishment, drawing and designing firms, solicitors establishment but does not include a commercial establishment or a shop attached to a Factory where the persons employee in the shop are allowed the benefit provided for workers under the Factories Act, 1948 (General Act No. 63 of 1948) or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (q) Wages means pay at whatever intervals paid and includes dearness and such other allowance payable in terms of money and includes the value of lodging and such other amenities whose value is capable of being computed in terms of money; and (r) week means the period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area by the prescribed authority;