Definitions

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) "Appellate Authority" means the authority as specified under Section 8 of this Act; (b) "Contractor" means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for the establishment, other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture to such establishment, through worker or labour or who supplies worker or labour for any work of the establishment and includes sub-contractor, (c) "Establishment" means: (i) any office or department of the Government or a local authority; (ii) any place where any industry, trade, business, manufacture or occupation is carried on; (iii) includes any individual worker/labour who provides service to the establishment or otherwise; (iv) includes but does not include the academic and technical institutions; (v) and includes the farms as competence to do such work is concerned. (d) "Government" means the State Government of Sikkim; (e) "Notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (f) "Owner" means those who work in origins in bazars, godowns in establishment; (g) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "Principal Employer" means: (i) In relation to any office or department of the Government or a local authority, the head of that office or department or such other officer as the Government or the local authority, as the case may be, specify in this behalf; (ii) In a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory under the Factories Act, 1948, the person so named; (iii) In any establishment, any person responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment; (i) "Registering Officer" means the Officer delegated under Section 3 of the Act; (j) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to the Act; (k) "Scheduled Employment" means an employment specified in the Schedule; (l) "Wages" means all remuneration expressed in terms of money or capable of being so expressed which would, if the terms of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a person employed in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment; (m) "Worker / Labour" means any person governed by Schedule Employment who is 14 years and above and any person employed in or in connection with the work of any establishment to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied, but does not include any such person who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity.