law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  2.Definitions.-
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,----
  (a) "appropriate Government" means,----
  ( i ) in relation to an establishment (which employs
  
  building workers either directly or through a contractor) in respect of which
  
  the appropriate Government under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of
  
  1947), is the Central Government, the Central Government;
  (ii) in relation to any such establishment, being a public sector undertaking,
  
  as the Central Government may by notification specify which employs building
  
  workers either directly or through a contractor, the Central Government;
  Explanation.--- For the purposes of
  
  sub-clause (ii), "public sector under taking" means any corporation
  
  established by or under any Central, State or Provincial Act or a Government
  
  company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956)which
  
  is owned, controlled or managed by the Central Government.
  (iii) in relation to 
  
  any other establishment which employs building workers either directly or 
  
  through a contractor, the Government of the State in which that other 
  
  establishment is situate
  
  (b) "beneficiary" means a building workers registered under section
  
  12;
  (c) "Board means a Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare Board
  
  constituted under sub-section (1) of section 18;
  (d) "building or other construction work" means the construction,
  
  alteration, repairs, maintenance or demolition, or, in relation, to buildings,
  
  streets, roads, railways, tramways, airfields, irrigation, drainage, embankment
  
  and navigation works, flood control works (including storm water drainage
  
  works), generation, transmission an distribution of power, water works
  
  (including channels for distribution of water), oil and gas installations,
  
  electric lines, wireless, radio, television, telephone, telegraph and overseas
  
  communications, dams, canals, reservoirs, watercourses, tunnels, bridges,
  
  viaducts, aqueducts, pipelines, towers, cooling towers, transmission towers and
  
  such other work as may be specified in this behalf by the appropriate
  
  Government, by notification but does not include and building or other
  
  construction work to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of
  
  1948), or the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), apply;
  (e) "building worker" means a person who is employed to do any
  
  skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical
  
  work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or
  
  implied, in connection with any building or other construction work but does
  
  not include any such person------
  ( i ) who is employed mainly in a managerial or
  
  administrative capacity; or
  (ii) who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one
  
  thousand six hundred rupees per mensem or Exercises,
  
  either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of he
  
  powers vested in him, functions mainly or a managerial nature.
  (f) "Chief
  
  Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Inspection of Building and
  
  Construction appointed under sub-section (2) of section 42.
  (g) "Contractor"
  
  means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for any establishment,
  
  other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture, by the employment
  
  of building workers or who supplies building workers for any work of the
  
  establishment; and includes a sub-contractor;
  (h) "Director-General" means the Director-General of Inspection
  
  appointed under sub-section (1) of section 42;
  ( i ) "employer" in relation to an
  
  establishment, means the owner thereof, and includes,---
  ( i ) in relation to a building or other construction
  
  work carried on by or under the authority of any department of the Government,
  
  directly without any contractor, the authority specified in this behalf, or
  
  where on authority is specified, the hear of the department;
  (ii) in relation to a building or other construction work carried on by or on
  
  behalf of a local authority or other establishment, directly without any
  
  contractor, the chief executive officer of that authority or establishment;
  (iii) in relation to a building or other construction work carried on by or
  
  thought a contractor , or by the employment of building workers supplied by a
  
  contractor, the contractor;
  (j)
  
  "establishment" means any establishment belonging to, or under the
  
  control of, Government, any body corporate or firm, an individual or
  
  association or other body of individuals which or who employs building workers
  
  in any building or other construction work; and includes an establishment
  
  belonging to a contractor, but does not include an individual who employs such
  
  workers in any building or construction work in relation to his own residence
  
  the total cost of such construction not being more than rupees ten  lakhs ;
  (k) "Fund" means the Building and Other Construction Workers' Welfare
  
  Fund of a Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 24;
  (l) "notification" means a notification published in the Official
  
  Gazette;
  (m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the
  
  Central Government or, as the case may be, the State Government;
  (n) "wages" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause
  
  (vi) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936).
  (2) Any reference in this Act to any law which
  
  is not in force in any area shall, in relation to that area, be construed as a
  
  reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.