law: Contact Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
  2. Definitions
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  (a) "appropriate government" means-
  (i) in relation to an establishment 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 other establishment,
  
  the Government of the State in which that other establishment is situate;]
  (b) a workman shall be deemed to be employed
  
  as "contract labor" in or in connection with the work of an
  
  establishment when he is hired in or in connection with such work by or through
  
  a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer;
  (c) "contractor", in relation to an
  
  establishment, means a person who undertakes to produce a given result for the
  
  establishment, other than a mere supply of goods or articles of manufacture to
  
  such establishment, through contract labor or who supplies contract labor for
  
  any work of the establishment and includes a sub-contractor;
  (d) "controlled industry" means any
  
  industry the control of which by the Union has been declared by any Central Act
  
  to be expedient in the public interest;
  (e) "establishment" means-
  (i) any office or department of the government
  
  or a local authority, or
  (ii) any place where any industry, trade,
  
  business, manufacture or occupation is carried on;
  (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made under this Act;
  (g) "principal employer" means-
  (i) in relation to any office or department of
  
  the government or a local authority, the head of that office or department or
  
  such other officer as the government or the local authority; as the case may
  
  be, may specify in this behalf,
  (ii) in a factory, the owner or occupier of
  
  the factory and where a person has been named as the manager of the factory
  
  under the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), the person so named.
  (iii) in a mine, the owner or agent of the
  
  mine and where a person has been named as the manager of the mine, the person
  
  so named,
  (iv) in any other establishment, any person
  
  responsible for the supervision and control of the establishment.
  Explanation: For the purpose of
  
  sub-clause (iii) of this clause, the expressions "mine",
  
  "owner" and "agent" shall have the meanings respectively
  
  assigned to them in clause (j) clause (l) and clause (c) of sub-section (1) of
  
  section 2 of the Mine Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);
  (h) "wages" shall have the meaning
  
  assigned to it in clause (vi) of section 2 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4
  
  of 1936);
  (i) "workman" means any person
  
  employed in or in connection with the work of any establishment to do any
  
  skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, technical or clerical
  
  work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied,
  
  but does not include any such person-
  (A) who is employed mainly in a managerial or
  
  administrative capacity; or
  (B) who, being employed in a supervisory
  
  capacity draws wages exceeding five hundred rupees per mensem or exercises,
  
  either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the
  
  powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; or
  (C) who is an out-worker, that is to say, a
  
  person to whom any article and materials are given out by or on behalf of the
  
  principal employer to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented,
  
  finished, repaired, adapted or otherwise processed for sale for the purposes of
  
  the trade or business of the principal employer and the process is to be
  
  carried out either in the home of the out-worker or in some other premises, not
  
  being premises under the control and management of the principal employer.
  (2) Any reference in this Act to a law which
  
  is not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall, in relation to that
  
  State, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force
  
  in that State.