Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (1) "apprentice" means a person who is employed, whether on payment of wages or not, for the purpose of being trained in any trade, craft, business or employment in a shop or an establishment; (2) "child" means a person who has not completed his twelfth year of age; (3) "closed" means not open for the service of any customer or for any business connected with a shop or an establishment involving work by an employee; (4) "commercial establishment" means an establishment which carries on the business, trade or profession of advertising, commission agency, forwarding or commercial agency or which is a clerical department of a factory or of any industrial or commercial undertaking, includes- (a) an establishment undertaking the business, trade or profession of public transport; (b) an insurance company, joint stock company, broker's office or exchange; and (c) such other establishment or class thereof as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a commercial establishment for the purposes of this Act; but does not include a shop or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (5) "day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; (6) "employee" means a person wholly or principally employed in, and in connection with, a shop or an establishment and includes an apprentice but does not include a member of the employer's family; (7) "employer" means a person having charge of, or owning or having ultimate control over the affairs of a shop or an establishment and includes the manager, agent or other person acting in the general management or control of a shop or an establishment; (8) "employer's family" means the husband or wife, children, father or mother, of the employer and includes the brother or sister, brother's son, sister's son, daughter's son, son's son, of such employer living with, and dependent on him; (9) "establishment" means a commercial establishment or an establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (10) "establishment for public entertainment or amusement" means a restaurant, eatinghouse, cafe, residential hotel, cinema, theatre, and such other establishment or class thereof as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be, for the purposes of this Act, an establishment for public entertainment or amusement, but does not include a shop or a commercial establishment; (11) "factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (12) "holiday" means a day on which a shop or an establishment shall remain closed or on which an employee shall be given a holiday under the provisions of this Act; (13) "Inspector" means an Inspector appointed under this Act; (14) "Official Gazette" means the Manipur Gazette; (15) "opened" means opened for the service of any customer or for any business connected with a shop or an establishment; (16) "period of work" means the time during which an employee is at the disposal of the employer; (17) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (18) "shop" means any premises used wholly or in part for wholesale or retail sale of commodities or articles, either for cash or on credit, and such other premises as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a shop for the purposes of this Act, but does not include a commercial establishment for public entertainment or amusement; (19) "spread-over" means the period between the commencement and the termination of work in an establishment on any day; (20) "State Government" means the State Government of Manipur; (21) "Wage period", in relation to the payment of wages of an employee, means a wage period fixed by an employer under section 16 in respect of such employee; (22) "Wages" means wages as defined in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (IV of 1936) and includes any allowance to which an employee is for the time being entitled; (23) "Week" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight of Saturday night; (24) "Year" means a period of twelve months of the Gregorian Calendar commencing on the first day of January.