law: Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
  2.Definitions.- 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,-
  (a) "adult" means a person who has
  
  completed eighteen years of age;
  (b) "child" means a person who has not completed fourteen years of
  
  age;
  (c) "competent authority" means any authority authorized by the State
  
  Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the
  
  functions of the competent authority under this Act and for such areas as may
  
  be specified therein;
  (d) "contractor" means a person who,
  
  in relation to a manufacturing process, undertakes to produce a given result by
  
  executing the work through contract labor or who engages labor for any
  
  manufacturing process in a private dwelling house and includes a
  
  sub-contractor, agent munshi , thekedar 
  
  or sattedar ;
  (e) "contract labor" means any
  
  persons engaged or employed in any premises by or through a contractor, with or
  
  without the knowledge of the employer, in any manufacturing process;
  (f) "employee" means a person
  
  employed directly or through any agency, whether for wages or not, in any
  
  establishment to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical, and
  
  includes-
  ( i )
  
  any labor who is given raw materials by an employer or a contractor for being
  
  made into beedi or cigar or both at home (hereinafter
  
  referred to in this Act as "home worker"), and
  (ii) any person not
  
  employed by an employer or a contractor but working with the permission of, or
  
  under agreement with, the employer or contractor;
  (g) "employer" means,--
  (a) in relation to contract
  
  labor, the principal employer, and
  (b) in relation to other labor, the person who has the ultimate control over
  
  the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money,
  
  supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the
  
  affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs
  
  of the establishment are entrusted, whether such other person is called the
  
  managing agent, manager, superintendent or by any other name;
  (h) "establishment" means any place
  
  or premises including the precincts thereof in which or in any part of which
  
  any manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi 
  
  or cigar or both is being, or is ordinarily, carried on and includes an
  
  industrial premises;
  ( i ) "industrial
  
  premises" means any place or premises (not being a private dwelling
  
  house), including the precincts thereof, in which or in any part of which any
  
  industry or manufacturing process connected with the making of  beedi or cigar or both is being, or is ordinarily, carried
  
  on with or without the aid of power;
  (j) "Inspector" means an Inspector
  
  appointed under sub-section (1) of section 6;
  (k) "manufacturing process" means any process for, or incidental to,
  
  making finishing or packing or otherwise treating any article or substance with
  
  a view to its use, sale, transport, delivery or disposal as beedi 
  
  or cigar or both;
  (l) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made by the State Government under this Act;
  (m) "principal employer" means a
  
  person for whom or on whose behalf any contract labor is engaged or employed in
  
  an establishment;
  (n) "private dwelling house" means a
  
  house in which persons engaged in the manufacture of beedi 
  
  or cigar or both reside;
  (o) "State Government", in relation
  
  to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof;
  (p) "week" means a period of seven
  
  days beginning at midnight on Saturday;
  (q) "young person" means a person
  
  who has completed fourteen years of age but has not completed eighteen years of
  
  age.