48. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- " appointed date " means the 1st day of September, 1951 ; " appropriate labour tribunal" means the labour tribunal, for the time being, having jurisdiction, for the purposes of Part IVA of this Act, over an area in which the establishment of the employer is situated; " authorized officer " means any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner to settle any industrial dispute by conciliation ; " Commissioner" means the person for the time being holding the office of Commissioner of Labour and includes-
| (a) any person for the time being holding the office of Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Labour; |
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| (b) in respect of any power, duty or function of the Commissioner under this Act, any person authorized in writing by the Commissioner to exercise such power, perform such duty or discharge such function ; |
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| (c) in respect of the power conferred on the Commissioner by section 3 (1) (b), any labour officer; |
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" district" and " District Judge" have the same meanings as in the Courts Ordinance; " employer" means any person who employs or on whose behalf any other person employs any workman and includes a body of employers (whether such body is a firm, company, corporation or trade union) and any person who on behalf of any other person employs any workman ; " essential industry " means any industry which is declared, by Order made by the Minister and published in the Gazette, to be an industry essential to the life of the community ; " industry " includes-
| (a) trade, business, manufacture and agriculture, any undertaking or occupation by way of trade, business, manufacture or agriculture, and any branch or section of trade, business, manufacture or agriculture ; |
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| (b) service, work or labour of any description whatsoever performed by persons in the employment of a local authority, or of a corporation established by or under any written law for carrying on an under taking whether for the purpose of trade or otherwise; |
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| (c) every occupation, calling or service of workmen ; and
| | (d) every undertaking of employers ; | | |
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" industrial dispute " means any dispute or difference between an employer and a workman or between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment, or with the conditions of labour, or the termination of the services, or the reinstatement in service, of any person, and for the purposes of this definition " workmen " includes a trade union consisting of workmen ; " lock-out " and " strike " have the same meanings as in the Trade Unions Ordinance ;" retrenchment" means the termination by an employer of the services of a workman or workmen on the ground that such workman or workmen is or are in excess of the number of workmen required by such employer to carry on his industry ; " trade union " means any trade union (whether of employers or of workmen) registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance ; and " workman " means any person who has entered into or works under a contract with an employer in any capacity, whether the contract is expressed or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract of service or of apprenticeship, or a contract personally to execute any work or labour, and includes any person ordinarily employed under any such contract whether such person is or is not in employment at any particular time, and, for the purposes of any proceedings under this Act in relation to any industrial dispute, includes any person whose services have been terminated. |
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