law: Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 
  2. Definitions In this Act unless there is anything
  
  repugnant in the subject or context  -
  [Clause (a) omitted w.e.f. 1-6-1959.]
  (b) "Commissioner" means a Commissioner for Workmen's
  
  Compensation appointed under section 20;
  (c) "compensation" means compensation as provided for
  
  by this Act;
  (d) "dependent" means any of the following relatives
  
  of a deceased workman namely:
  (i) a widow a minor legitimate or adopted son
  
  an unmarried legitimate or adopted daughter or a widowed mother; and
  (ii) if wholly dependant on the earnings of
  
  the workman at the time of his death a son or a daughter who has attained the
  
  age of 18 years and who is infirm;
  (iii) if wholly or in part dependant on the
  
  earnings of the workman at the time of his death-
  (a) a widower
  (b) a parent other
  
  than a widowed mother
  (c) a minor illegitimate son an unmarried
  
  illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or illegitimate or adopted if
  
  married and a minor or if widowed and minor
  (d) a minor brother or an unmarried sister or
  
  a widowed sister if a minor
  (e) a widowed daughter-in-law
  (f) a minor child of a
  
  pre-deceased son
  (g) a minor child of a pre-deceased daughter
  
  where no parent of the child is alive or
  (h) a paternal
  
  grandparent if no parent of the workman is alive;
  Explanation : For the purpose of
  
  sub-clause (ii) and items (f) and (g) of sub-clause (iii) references to a son
  
  daughter or child include an adopted son daughter or child respectively.
  (e) "employer" includes any body of persons whether
  
  incorporated or not and any managing agent of an employer and the legal
  
  representative of a deceased employer and when the services of a workman are
  
  temporarily lent or let on hire to another person by the person with whom the
  
  workman has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship means such
  
  other person while the workman is working for him;
  (f) "managing agent" means any person appointed or
  
  acting as the representative of another person for the purpose of carrying on
  
  such other person's trade or business but does not include an individual
  
  manager subordinate to an employer;
  (ff) "minor" means a person who has not attained the
  
  age of 18 years;
  (g) "partial disablement" means where the disablement
  
  is of a temporary nature such disablement as reduces the earning capacity of a
  
  workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident
  
  resulting in the disablement and where the disablement is of a permanent nature
  
  such disablement as reduces his earning capacity in every employment which he
  
  was capable of undertaking at that time :
  Provided that every injury specified in Part II of
  
  Schedule shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement;
  (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
  
  this Act;
  (i) "qualified medical practitioner" means any person
  
  registered under any Central Act or an Act of the Legislature of a State
  
  providing for the maintenance of a register of medical practitioners or in any
  
  area where no such last-mentioned Act is in force any person declared by the
  
  State Government by notification in the Official Gazette to be a qualified
  
  medical practitioner for the purpose of this Act;
  [Clause (j) omitted by Act 15 of 1933]
  (k) "seaman" means any person forming part of the crew
  
  of any ship but does not include the master of the ship;
  (l) "total disablement" means such disablement whether
  
  of a temporary or permanent nature as incapacitates a workman for all work
  
  which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in
  
  such disablement :
  Provided that permanent total disablement shall be
  
  deemed to result from every injury specified in Part I of Schedule I or from
  
  any combination of injuries specified in Part II thereof where the aggregate
  
  percentage of the loss of earning capacity as specified in the said Part II against
  
  those injuries amount to one hundred per cent or more;
  (m) "wages" includes any privilege or benefit which is
  
  capable of being estimated in money other than a traveling allowance or the
  
  value of any traveling concession or a contribution paid by the employer of a
  
  workman towards any pension or provident fund or a sum paid to a workman to
  
  cover any special expenses entailed on him by the nature of his employment;
  (n) "workman" means any person (other than a person
  
  whose employment is of a casual nature and who is employed otherwise than for
  
  the purposes of the employer's trade or business) who is -
  (i) a railway servant as defined in Section 3
  
  of the Indian Railways Act 1890 (9 of 1890) not permanently employed in any
  
  administrative district or sub-divisional office of a railway and not employed
  
  in any such capacity as is specified in Schedule II or
  (ia)(a) a master
  
  seaman or other member of the crew of a ship.
  (b) a captain or other
  
  member of the crew of an aircraft
  (c) a person recruited as driver helper
  
  mechanic cleaner or in any other capacity in connection with a motor vehicle
  (d) a person recruited for work abroad by a
  
  company and who is employed outside India in any such capacity as is specified
  
  in Schedule II and the ship aircraft or motor vehicle or company as the case
  
  may be is registered in India or;
  (ii) employed in any such capacity as is
  
  specified in Schedule II whether the contract of employment was made before or
  
  after the passing of this Act and whether the contract is expressed or implied
  
  oral or in writing; but does not include any person working in the capacity of
  
  a member of the Armed Forces of the Union; and any reference to a workman who
  
  has been injured shall where the workman is dead includes a reference to his
  
  dependants or any of them.
  (2) The exercise and performance of the powers
  
  and duties of a local authority or of any department acting on behalf of the
  
  Government shall for the purposes of this Act unless a contrary intention
  
  appears be deemed to be the trade or business of such authority or department.
  (3) The Central Government or the State
  
  Government after giving by notification in the Official Gazette not less than
  
  three months' notice of its intention so to do may by a like notification add
  
  to Schedule II any class of persons employed in any occupation which it is
  
  satisfied is a hazardous occupation and the provisions of this Act shall
  
  thereupon apply in case of notification by the Central Government within the
  
  territories to which the Act extends or in the case of a notification by a
  
  State Government within the State to such classes of persons :
  Provided that in making addition the Central Government
  
  or the State Government as the case may be may direct that the provisions of
  
  this Act shall apply to such classes of persons in respect of specified
  
  injuries only.