Legal glossary

“employer”

Defined in 9 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Code on Social Security, 2020 · s. 2

    (27) "employer" means a person who employs, whether directly or through any person, or on his behalf, or on behalf of any person, one or more employees in his establishment and where the establishment is carried on by any department of the Central Government or the State Government, the authority specified, by the head of such department, in this behalf or where no authority is so specified, the head of the department and in relation to an establishment carried on by a local authority, the chief executive of that authority, and includes,—
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  2. The Emigration Act, 1983 · s. 2

    (g) "employer" means any person providing or offering to provide, employment in any country or place outside India;
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  3. The Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 · s. 2

    (e) "employer" means—
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  4. The Income-tax Act, 1961 · s. 2

    (a) "employer" means any person who maintains a provident fund for the benefit of his or its employees, being—
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  5. The Industrial Employmnet (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 · s. 2

    (d) "employer" means the owner of an industrial establishment to which this Act for the time being applies, and includes—
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  6. The National Service Act, 1972 · s. 2

    (a) "employer" means any person who employs any qualified person for doing any work in any establishment and includes any person entrusted with the supervision and control of qualified persons in such establishment.
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  7. The Defence of India Act, 1962 · s. 19 · Repealed or not in force

    (b) "employer" means any person who employs technical personnel to do any work in an establishment and includes any person entrusted with the supervision and control of technical personnel in such an establishment; - (c) "establishment" means—
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  8. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948, 11 of 1948 (Rep., Act 29 of 2019) · s. 2 · Repealed or not in force

    (e) "employer" means any person who employs, whether directly or through another person, or whether on behalf of himself or any other person, one or more employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed under this Act, and includes, except in subsection (3) of section 26,—
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