law: Maternity Benefit Act,1961 
  3. Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires- 
  (a) "appropriate government" means, in relation to an
  
  establishment being a mine, 7[or an establishment where in persons
  
  are employed for the exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic and other
  
  performances], the Central Government and in relation to any other
  
  establishment, the State Government;
  (b) "child" includes a still-born child;
  (c) "delivery" means the birth of a child;
  (d) "employer" means- 
  (i) in relation to an establishment which is
  
  under the control of the government a person or authority appointed by the
  
  government for the supervision and control of employees or where no person or
  
  authority is so appointed, the head of the department;
  (ii) in relation to an establishment under any
  
  local authority, the person appointed by such authority for the supervision and
  
  control of employees or where no person is so appointed, the chief executive
  
  officer of the local authority;
  (iii) in any other case, the person who, or
  
  the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the
  
  establishment and where the said affairs are entrusted to any other person
  
  whether called a manager, managing director, managing agent, or by any other
  
  name, such person;
   7  [(e) "establishment" means- 
  (i) a factory;
  (ii) a mine;
  (iii) a plantation;
  (iv) an establishment wherein persons are
  
  employed for the exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic and other performance;
  
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   9  [(iva) a shop or establishment; or]
  (v) an establishment to which the provisions
  
  of this Act have been declared under sub-section (1) of section 2 to be
  
  applicable;]
  (f) "factory" means a factory as defined in clause (m)
  
  of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948);
  (g) "inspector" means an Inspector appointed under
  
  section 14;
  (h) "maternity benefit" means the payment referred to
  
  in sub-section (1) of section 5;
   10  [(ha) "medical termination of pregnancy" means
  
  the termination of pregnancy permissible under the provisions of Medical
  
  Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971;]
  (i) "mine" means a mine as defined in clause (j) of
  
  section (2) of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);
  (j) "miscarriage" means expulsion of the contents of a
  
  pregnant uterus at any period prior to or during the twenty-sixth week of
  
  pregnancy but does not include any miscarriage, the causing of which is
  
  punishable under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860);
  (k) "plantation" means a plantation as defined in
  
  clause (f) of section 2 of the Plantations Labor Act, 1951 (69 of 1951);
  (l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under
  
  this Act;
  (m) "State Government", in relation to a Union
  
  territory, means the Administrator thereof;
  (n) "wages" means all remuneration paid or payable in cash
  
  to a woman, if the terms of the contract of employment, express or implied,
  
  were fulfilled and includes- 
  (1) such cash allowances (including dearness
  
  allowance and house rent allowances) as a woman is for the time being entitled
  
  to,
  (2) incentive bonus, and
  (3) the money value of the concessional supply
  
  of food grains and other articles but does not include- 
  (i) any bonus other
  
  than incentive bonus;
  (ii) over-time earnings and any deduction or
  
  payment made on account of fines;
  (iii) any contribution paid or payable by the
  
  employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the woman
  
  under any law for the time being in force; and
  (iv) any gratuity
  
  payable on the termination of service;
  (o) "woman" means a woman employed, whether directly
  
  or through any agency, for wages in any establishment.