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- easementStatutory definition
a right not arising from contract by which a person is entitled to remove and appropriate for his benefit any part of the soil of another or anything growing in, attached to, or subsisting on the land of another
- electionStatutory definition
an election held under any law, by any means, for the purpose of selecting members of Parliament or of a Legislature, a local authority or other public authority
- electrical inspectorStatutory definition
a person appointed as such by the appropriate Government under sub-section (1) of section 162 and includes the Chief Electrical Inspector; (22) “electrical plant” means any plant, equipment, instrument or appliance or any part thereof used for the generat
- electricityStatutory definition
electrical energy, -
- electricity supply codeStatutory definition
the electricity supply code specified in section 50; (25) “electricity system” means a system under the control of a generating company or a licensee, as the case may be, and consisting of one or more of, -
- electricity traderStatutory definition
a person who has been granted a licence to trade in electricity under section 12; (27) “privileged person” means a person authorised by a distribution licensee to distribute electricity on its behalf in a particular area within its area of supply; (28)
- electronic communicationStatutory definition
the communication of any written, verbal, pictorial information or video content transmitted or transferred (whether from one person to another or from one device to another or from a person to a device or from a device to a person) by means of an electro
- electronic gazetteStatutory definition
the gazette published in electronic form
- electronic recordStatutory definition
data, record or data produced, image or sound stored, received or transmitted in any electronic form or in microfilm or computer generated microscope; [(t) “electronic signature” means the authentication of any electronic record by a user by means of elec
- electronic signature certificateStatutory definition
an electronic signature certificate issued under section 35 and includes a digital signature certificate
- employeeStatutory definition
any person who is employed either directly or through any agent including a contractor, for any work at a workplace. is employed on regular, temporary, ad-hoc or daily wage basis, whether for remuneration or without the knowledge of the principal employer
- EmployeeStatutory definition
any person (other than an apprentice employed under the Apprentices Act, 1961) who is employed by an industrial establishment to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, operational, supervisory, managerial, administrative, technical or clerical
- employerStatutory definition
any person who, in his establishment, employs, whether directly or through any person or on his behalf or on behalf of any person, one or more employees or workmen and where such establishment is run by a department of the Central Government or a State Go
- engravingStatutory definition
drawings, lithographs, woodcuts, prints and other similar works, not being photographs
- enterpriseStatutory definition
any person or department of the Government which is, or is engaged, either directly or through one or more of its units or divisions or subsidiaries, in any activity relating to the production, storage, supply, distribution, acquisition or control of arti
- environmentStatutory definition
water, air and land and the interrelationship that exists between water, air and land and human beings, other living creatures, plants and microorganisms and property
- environmental pollutantStatutory definition
any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentrations as may be or are likely to be injurious to the environment
- environmental pollutionStatutory definition
the presence of environmental pollutants in the environment
- establishmentStatutory definition
any advertising agency, commission agent, manufacturing, trading or any other commercial agency which carries on any business, trade or profession or any other work connected with, or ancillary or ancillary to, a commercial activity, trade or profession
- exclusive licenceStatutory definition
a licence which confers on the licensee, or on the licensee and the persons authorised by him, any right which is included in the copyright in a work to the exclusion of all other persons (including the owner of the copyright), and “exclusive licensee” sh
- exempt employeeStatutory definition
an employee who is not liable under this Act to pay employee's contribution; (11) “family” means all or any of the following relatives of the insured person, namely:-
- existing registered trade markStatutory definition
a trade mark registered under the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958), immediately before the commencement of this Act.
