The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
2.
DEFINITIONS. –
In
this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(i ) "appropriate Government" means, in relation to
an establishment under the control of the Central Government or a railway
administration or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central Government, and
in all other cases, the State Government;
(ii)
"Child" means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of
age;
(iii)
"Day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight;
(iv)
"Establishment" includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop,
farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating-house, theatre or other place of
public amusement or entertainment;
(v)
"Family", in relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife
or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother
or sister of such individual;
(vi)
"Occupier", in relation to an establishment or a workshop, means the
person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment or
workshop;
(vii)
"Port authority" means any authority administering a port;
(viii)
"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under Sec. 18;
(ix)
"Week" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday
night or such other night as may be approved in writing for a particular area
by the Inspector;
(x)
"Workshop" means any premises (including the precincts thereof)
wherein any industrial process is carried on, but does not include any premises
to which the provisions of Sec. 67 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), for
the time being, apply.