Section 2

(c) "agent", when used in relation to a mine, means any person, whether appointed as such or not, who acts as the representative of the owner in respect of the management of the mine or of any part thereof, and as such superior to a manager under this Act; (d) "Chief Inspector" means the Chief Inspector of Mines appointed under this Act; (e) "child" means a person who has not completed his fifteenth year; (/) "day" means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight; (g) "district magistrate" means, in a presidency-town, the person appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of a district magistrate under this Act in that town; ( 155 ) 901 G. of I. ^ THE GAZETTE OF INDIA BXT11A0EDINARY [PAUT II :— - - = — =^==\ (h) u. person is scud to be "employed" in a mine who works under appointment Lo or with the knowledge ot the manager, whether for waged or not, m any mining operation, or in cleaning or oiling any part of any machinery used hi or about the mum, or iu any other kind oi work whatsoever incidental to, or connected with, mining operations; (JJ "Inspector" means an Inspector of Mines appointol under this Act, and includes a district magistrate when exercising any power or performing any duty of an Inspector which he is empowered by this Act to excrete or perform; (I) "owner", when used in relation to a mine, means any person who is the immediate proprietor or lessee or occupier of the mine or of any part thereof and in the ease of a mine the business whereof is being ••anied on by a liquid"!tor or receiver, such liquidator or receiver; but does not include a person who merely receives a royalty, rent or fine from the mine, or is merely the proprietor of the mine, subject lo any lease, grant or licence for the working thereoi, or is merely the owner of (he soil and not interested in the minerals of- the mine; but any contractor for the working of a mine or any part thereof shall be subject to this Act in like manner as if he were an owner, but not so as to exempt the owner from any liability; (r) "week" means the period between midnight on Saturday night an4 midnight on tha succeeding Saturday night. (m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules, regulations or bye-laws, as the ease may be; (•n) "qualified medical practitioner" menus a person holding a qualification granted bv an authority specified in the Schedule to the Indian Medical" Decreed Act, 101ft (VII of HUfi), or in the Schedule to the Indian (Medical Council Act, 1933 (XXVII of 191)8); (0) •'regulations", "rules" and "bye-laws" mean respectively regulations, rules and bye-laws made under this Act; (p) where work of the same kind is carried out by two or more sets of persons working -luring difl>iv:it periods of the clay each of such sets is called a "relay"; (q) "aerioi.a bodily injury" means any injury which involves, or In all probability will involve, the pen ianent loss of tin- use of, or permanent injury to, any limb, or the permanent loss of or injury to the sight or hearing, or the fiaeture of am limb or the enforced absence of the injured persin from work for a period exceeding twenty days; IEO. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTEAOEDINABY 157 12. Mining Eo;irda. -(1) The Central Government may consti^ira for any part of the territories to which this Act extends, or for any group or class of mines, a Mining Boa;:d consisting of— (a) a person in the service of the Government, not being the Chief Inspector or an Inspector, nomimitud by the Central Government to act as chairman;