law: Emigration Act, 1983
  2. Definitions.-
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,- "Certificate" means a certificate of registration issued
  
  under section 11, "conveyance" includes a vessel, vehicle,
  
  country-craft and an aircraft, ‘dependent" means any person who is related
  
  to an emigrant and is dependent on that emigrant.
  "Emigrant" means any citizen of
  
  India who intends to emigrate, or emigrates, or has emigrated but does not
  
  include - A dependent of an emigrant, whether such dependent accompanies that
  
  emigrant, or departs subsequently for the purpose f joining that emigrant in
  
  the country to which that emigrant has lawfully emigrated, any person who has
  
  resides outside India at any time after attaining the age of eighteen years,
  
  for not less than three years on the spouses or child of such person
  
  "emigrant conveyance" means any conveyance specially chartered for
  
  conveyance of emigrates or for conveying emigrants exceeding such number as may
  
  be prescribed:
  Provided that the Central Government may, by
  
  notification, declare that nay conveyance conveying emigrants to such place as
  
  may be specified in the notification shall not be deemed to be an emigrant
  
  conveyance.
  "Emigrate" and
  
  "emigration" mean the departure out of India of any person with a
  
  view of taking up and employment (whether or not under an agreement or other
  
  arrangements of take up such employment and whether with or without the
  
  assistance of a recruiting agent or employer) in any country or place outside
  
  India, "employer" means any person providing or offering to provide,
  
  employment in any country or place outside India "employment" means
  
  any service, occupation or engagement (not being service, occupation or
  
  engagement under the Central Government or a State Government), in any kind of
  
  work within the meaning of clause (o), for wages or for reward, and all its
  
  grammatical variations and cognate expression shall be construed accordingly,
  
  "notification’ means a notification published in the Official Gazette,
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act,
  "Protector of Emigrants" means a
  
  Protector of Emigrants appointed under section 3 and includes a person
  
  authorized under section 5, "recruiting agent" means a person engaged
  
  in India in the business of recruitment for an employer and representing such
  
  employer with respect of any matter in relating to such recruitment including
  
  dealings with persons so recruited or desiring to be so recruited,
  
  "recruitment" includes the issuing of any advertisement for the
  
  purpose of recruitment of offering by advertisement to secure or assist in securing
  
  any employment in any county or place outside India and the entering into any
  
  correspondence, negotiation, agreement or arrangement with any individual for
  
  or in relation to the employment of such individual in any country or place
  
  outside India, registering authority" means the officer appointed under
  
  section 9 to be the registering authority for the purposes of this Act,
  
  "work" means.- Any unskilled work, including any form of industrial
  
  or agricultural labor, any domestic service, any service, not being a service
  
  in a managerial capacity, in ant hotel, restaurant, tea-house or other place of
  
  public resort.
  Work as a driver of truck or other vehicle,
  
  mechanic, technical or skilled laborer or artisan,
  Work as a driver of a truck or other vehicle,
  
  mechanic, technical or skilled laborer or artisan,
  Work in connection with, or for the purpose
  
  of, any cinema, exhibition or entertainment,
  Any such work of a professional or of any
  
  other nature as the Central Government may, having regard to the need for the protection
  
  of citizens of India who may be employed in such work outside India and other
  
  relevant circumstances, specify by notification.
  Provided that the Central Government may, if
  
  satisfied that it is necessary so to do having regard to the conditions of
  
  service applicable with respect to employment in any of the aforementioned
  
  categories of work or any sub-category thereof, whether generally or in
  
  relation to any particular country or place and other relevant circumstances,
  
  declare by notification that such category of work or sub-category of work
  
  shall not be deemed to be work within the meaning of this definition.
  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.