Rule 2. Definitions

publication in the Official Gazette.

(1) In these rules unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Authority" means Authority appointed by State Government under sub-section (1) of section 45; "Appellate Authority" means Appellate (b) Authority appointed by Government under sub-section (1) of section 49;

(c) "Appeal" means appeal filed under sub section (1) of section 49; "Board" means the State Advisory Board (d) constituted by State Government under subsection (4) of section 42; "Chairperson" means Chairperson of the (e) Board; "Code" means the Code on Wages, 2019 (Act 29 of 2019);

(g) "Committee" means committee appointed by State Government under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 8;

(h) "day" means period of 24 hours commencing from midnight;

(i) "family" means all or any of the following relatives of an employee or an unorganised worker, as the case may be, namely:-

(a) a spouse;

(b) a minor legitimate or adopted child dependent upon the employee or an unorganised worker, as the case may be;

(c) a child who is wholly dependent on the earnings of the employee or an unorganised worker, as the case may be, and who is

(i) receiving education, till he attains the age of twenty-one years; and

(ii) an unmarried daughter;

(d) a child who is infirm by reason of mental any physical OI abnormality or injury and is wholly dependent on the earnings of the employee or an unorganized worker, as the case may be, so long as the infirmity continues;

c) dependent parents (including :father-in-law and mother-in-law of a woman employee), whose income from all sources does not exceed such income as may be prescribed by the State Government;

(f) in case the employee or an unorganised worker, as the case •may be, is unmarried and his parents are not alive, a minor brother or sister wholly dependent upon the earnings of the Insured Person; "form" means form annexed in this rules; ()

(k) "section" means section of the Code on Wages, 2019;

(1) "Inspector cum Facilitator" means person appointed by State Government by notification under sub-section (l) of section 51;

(m) "member" means member of Board/ Committee/ sub-committee;

(n) "geographical area" means, the • areas notified as such by the State Government from time to time;

(o) "population" means the population which is determined in previous census and whose relevant data is published;

(p) "Registered Trade Union" means that trade union which is registered under the Trade Union Act, 1926 (Act 16 of 1926) or the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, as the case may be;

(g) "State Government" means State Government of Uttarakhand ; (г) "Schedule" means schedule of this rules;

(s) "un-skilled trade" means that trade in which only operation experience is required and it does not involve any additional skill; "semi-skilled trade" means that trade in (t) which performance requires skill acquired by experience on work and is likely to be used in supervision or guidance of skilled employee and it also include non- skilled trade;

(1) "skilled trade" means trade which requires performance skill and competency acquired through trading as a trainee in technical and trading institution or by experience on work which requires initiative and judgment in its performance; "highly skilled trade" means the trade which requires a particular degree of excellence in its performance and which requires competence acquired through professional trading experience or technical or vocational training over an adequate period and which also requires the employee to accept full responsibility for his opinion or decision involved in performance of such trade.

(2) The words and expressions used herein and not defined shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Code.