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Interpretation.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— 3[(a) “adolescent” means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year; (aa) “adult” means a person who has completed his eighteenth year of age;] (b) “appropriate Government” means,— (i) in relation to any scheduled employment carried on by or under the authority of the 4[Central Government or a railway administration], or in relation to a mine, oilfield or major port, or any corporation established by 5[a Central Act], the Central Government, and (ii) in relation to any other scheduled employment, the State Government; 6[(bb) “child” means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age;] (c) “competent authority” means the authority appointed by the appropriate Government by notification in its Official Gazette to ascertain from time to time the cost of living index number applicable to the employees employed in the scheduled employments specified in such notification; (d) “cost of living index number”, in relation to employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed, means the index number ascertained and declared by the competent authority by notification in the Official Gazette to be the cost of living index number applicable to employees in such employment; (e) “employer” means any person who employs, whether directly or through another person, or whether on behalf of himself or any other person, one or more employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under this Act, and includes, except in sub-section (3) of section 26,— (i) in a factory where there is carried on any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under this Act, any person named under 7[clause (f) of sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)], as manager of the factory;