Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Ins. by Act 58 of 1981, s. 3 (w.e.f. 26-1-1982). 6 1[(f) “plantation” means any plantation to which this Act, whether wholly or in part, applies and includes offices, hospitals, dispensaries, schools, and any other premises used for any purpose connected with such plantation, but does not include any factory on the premises to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948) apply;] (g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 2[(h) “qualified medical practitioner” means a person holding a qualification granted by an authority specified or notified under section 3 of the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (7 of 1916), or specified in the Schedules to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956), and includes any person having a certificate granted under any Provincial or State Medical Council Act;] (i) “wages” has the meaning assigned to it in clause (h) of section 2 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948); (j) “week” means a period of seven days beginning at mid-night on Saturday night or such other night as may be fixed by the State Government in relation to plantations in any area after such consultation as may be prescribed with reference to the plantations concerned in that area; 3[(k) “worker” means a person employed in a plantation for hire or reward, whether directly or through any agency, to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical 4[and includes a person employed on contract for more than sixty days in a year], but does not include— (i) a medical officer employed in the plantation; (ii) any person employed in the plantation (including any member of the medical staff) whose monthly wages exceed 5[rupees ten thousand]; (iii) any person employed in the plantation primarily in a 6[managerial or administrative capacity, notwithstanding that his monthly wages do not exceed ten thousand]; or (iv) any person temporarily employed in the plantation in any work relating to the construction, development or maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges, drains or canals;] (l) “young person” means a person who is either a child or an adolescent.