Bare ActsThe Telangana Shops and Establishments Act, 1988.

Section 3

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Inserted by ibid. Definitions. Short title, extent, commencement and application. 2 [Act No.20 of 1988] being trained in any trade, craft or employment in any establishment; (2) „Chief Inspector‟ means the Chief Inspector appointed under section 57; (3) „child‟ means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age; (4) „closed‟ means not open for the service of any customer, or for any trade or business or for any other purpose connected with the establishment except loading, unloading and annual stock taking; (5) „commercial establishment‟ means an establishment which carries on any trade, business, profession or any work in connection with or incidental or ancillary to any such trade, business or profession or which is a clerical department of a factory or an industrial undertaking or which is a commercial or trading or banking or insurance establishment and includes an establishment under the management and control of a co-operative society, an establishment of a factory or an industrial undertaking which falls outside the scope of the Factories Act, 1948, and such other establishment as the Government may, by notification, declare to be a commercial establishment for the purposes of this Act but does not include a shop; (6) „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 from the time when such employment commences. Central Act 63 of 1948. [Act No.20 of 1988] 3 (7) „dependent‟ means, in relation to a deceased employee, his nominee or in the absence of such nominee, the heir or legal representative; (8) „employee‟ means a person wholly or principally employed in, and in connection with, any establishment and includes an apprentice and any clerical or other staff of a factory or industrial establishment who fall outside the scope of the Factories Act, 1948; but does not include the husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister of an employer or his partner, who is living with and depending upon such employer or partner and is not in receipt of any wages; (9) „employer‟ means a person having charge of or 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; (10) „establishment‟ means a shop, restaurant, eating- house, residential hotel, lodging house, theatre or any place of public amusement or entertainment and includes a commercial establishment and such other establishment as the Government may, by notification, declare to be an establishment for the purposes of this Act; (11) „factory‟ means factory within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1948; (12) „Government‟ means the State Government; (13) „Inspector‟ means an Inspector appointed under section 57; Central Act 63 of 1948. Central Act 63 of 1948. 4 [Act No.20 of 1988] (14) „notification‟ means a notification published in the 4Telangana Gazette and the word “notified” shall be construed accordingly; (15) „opened‟ means opened for the service of any customer or for any trade or business connected with the establishment; (16) „periods of work‟ means the time during which an employee is at the disposal of the employer; (17) „prescribed‟ means priscribed by rules made by the Government under this Act; (18) „register of establishment‟ means a register maintained for the registration of establishment under this Act; (19) „registration certificate‟ means a certificate issued under this Act; (20) „service compensation‟ means the service compensation payable under section 47; (21) „shop‟ means any premises where any trade or business is carried on or where services are rendered to customer and includes a shop run by a co-operative society an office, a store room, godown, warehouse or work place, whether in the same premises or otherwise, used in connection with such trade or business and such other establishments as the Government may, by notification, declare to be a shop for the purposes of this Act, but does not include a commercial establishment;