(1) [***]
[(a)] "Contribution" means the deduction from the wages of an [employee] for deposit to the [Provident Fund] [or Insurance Fund] and the amount payable by the employer in respect of each [employee] to the [Provident Fund] [or insurance Fund] under the Scheme.
[(b)] "Employer" means any person who is the peoprietor of a plantation and including a Managing Agent. Manager, Superitendent, [Managing Director, Director] or any other person who is in-charge of any plantation.
[(c)] [ "Fund" ] means the Provident Fund or the Pension Fund, [or Insurence Fund] ,as the case may be established under the Scheme.
[(d)] [ "Employees" ] means any person who is employed(including aprentice)to do any skilled or unskilled,manual or clerical work in or in connection with a plantation including its local head office,office,factory,workshop,school or hospital and who gets his wages directly or indirectly from the employer,but does not include a person whose total wages exceed [(Rs.6500/-(Rupees six thousand five hundred)] per mensem inclusive of dearness allowance and value of food concession,or a person working under a contractor in work not directly with connected with cultivation and manufacture of tea.
[(e)] "member" means a of [Provident Fund] or the Pension Fund, [or Insurance Fund] , as the case may be,
[(f)] [ "plantation" ] means any tea plantation or [tea factory] :
[(i) with an area of not less than 5 hectares under tea where ten or more employees are employed or were employed on any day of the twelve months preceeding the enforcement of the Scheme and where the crop basis under the Tea Act of 1953 (Act XXIX of 1953) is more than 255 Kg. per hectare or green leaf of more than 1022 kg. per hectare as the case may be or]
[(ii) with an area of not less than 10 hectores under tea where ten more employees are employed or were employed on any day preceeding twelve months of the enforcement of the Scheme or]
[(iii) any tea factory manufacturing tea where ten or more employees are employed.]
[(iv) Notwishstanding anything contained in sub-clause (i), (ii) and (iii) of this clause where it appears to the State Government, whether on an application made to it i this behalf or otherwise, that the employer and the majority of employees in relation to any establishment have agreed that the provisions of this Act should be made applicable to the establishment, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to that establishment on and from the date of such agreement or any subsequent date specified in such agreement.]
[(g)] "scheme" means the Assam Tea plantation Provident Fund (1)(and Pension Fund) [or the Insurance Fund] Scheme framed under Section 3 (1).
(h) "Wages" means any amount capable of being expressed in terms of money for the time being payable to an employee by the employer for works in or in connection with a plantation and includes dearnes allowance, value of foo concession, amount payable for plucking whether calculated on time or piece rates or otherwise, and leave with wages and maternity allowances or benefits, but does not include-
(a) bonus or
(b) Commission.
(i) "Interest" means the amount payable at the rate of 15 per cent per annum by the Employer over the cobined dues of Employees and Employer's share of contribution following default in depositing within 30 (thirty) days of its collection.
Section 2 • Assam Tea Plantations Provident Fund and Pension Fund and Deposit Linked Insurance Fund Scheme Act, 1955
2. Definitions.
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Section 2
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