Bare ActsThe Tripura Shops And Establishments Act 1970

Section 2

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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - 1[(a) “closed” means not open for the service of any customer or for any business, of the establishment or for work, by or with the help of any employee, of or connected with the shop or establishment.] 2(aa) “apprentice” means a person who is employed, whether on payment of wages or not, for the purpose of being trained in any trade, craft employment in any shop or establishment. (b) “commercial establishment” means an advertising commission forwarding or commercial agency, or a clerical department of a factory or of any industrial or commercial undertaking an insurance company, joint stock company, bank, broker’s office or exchange, and includes such other class or classes of concerns or undertakings as the Administrator may, after taking into consideration the nature of their work, by notification, in the Tripura Gazette, declare to be commercial establishments, for the purposes of this Act, but does not include a shop or an establishment for public entertainment or amusements; (c) “day” means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; (d) “employer” means a person owning or having charge of an establishment and includes an agent or a manager of and any other person acting on behalf of, such person in the general management or control of such establishment; (e) “Establishment” means a commercial establishment or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (f) “Establishment for public entertainment or amusement’ means a hotel, restaurant, eating house, café, cinema, theatre and includes such other class or classes of concerns or undertakings as the Administrator may, after taking into consideration the nature of their work, by notification, in the Tripura Gazette, declare to be, for the purposes of this Act, establishments for public entertainment or amusement, but does not include a shop or a commercial establishment; 3[(ff)“family’’ is relation to an employer means the husband or wife, as the case may be, his or her son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister of such employer who lives with and is dependent on him or her, as the case may be]