Login

Sign Up

Create an account to access the Law Library, all latest notifications, Minimum Wages & other events.

EMPLOYEE STATE INSURANCE (CENTRAL) RULES

1950

Related Legislation: - ESI Act, 1948

DEFINITIONS


2(1) Act " the Act" means the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (Act XXXIV of 1948);
2(1-A) Average Daily Wages "Average daily wages during a contribution period" means, in respect of any employee for the purpose of the daily rate of sickness benefit, maternity benefit, disablement benefit and dependants' benefit, the sum equal to one hundred and fifteen per cent of the aggregate amount of wages payable to him during that period,divided by the number of days (including paid holidays and leave days) for which such wages were payable.
2(1-B) Average Daily Wages During A Wage Period "Average daily wages during a wage period" means:-
(a) in respect of an employee who is employed on time-rate basis, the amount of wages which would have been payable to him for the complete wage period had he worked on all the working days in that wage period, divided by 26, if he is monthly rated, 13, if he is fortnightly rated, 6 if he is weekly rated and 1 if he is daily rated ;
(b) in respect of an employee employed on any other basis, the amount of wages earned during the complete wage period in the contribution period divided by the number of days in full or part for which he has worked for wages in that wages period:
Provided that where an employee receives wages without working on any day during such wage period, he shall be deemed to have worked for 26, 13, 6 or 1 days or day if the wage period be a month, a fortnight, a week or a day respectively.
Explanation.- Where any night shift continues beyond midnight, the period of the night shift after midnight shall be counted for reckoning the day worked as part of the day preceding;
2(1-C) Benefit Period "benefit period" means the period not exceeding six consecutive months corresponding to the contribution period, as may be specified in the regulations;
2(2) Chairman "Chairman" means the Chairman of the corporation, the Standing Committee or the Medical Benefit Council, as the case may be ;
2(2-A) Contribution Period "Contribution period" means the period not exceeding six consecutive months, as may be specified in the regulation;
2(3) Form "Form" means a form appended to these Rules;
2(4) Fund "Fund" means the Employees' State Insurance Fund;
2(5) Government Securities "Government Securities" means Government Securities as defined in the Indian Securities Act, 1920;
2(6) Immovable Property "immovable property" includes land, benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
2(7) Movable Property Rate "movable property rate" means property of every description except immovable property;
2(7-A) Standard Benefit Rate "Standard benefit rate" means the daily rate of benefit specified in Rule 54;
2(8) State Medical Commissioner "State Medical Commissioner" means a duly registered medical practitioner including a medical officer in the service of the State Government appointed as such by the Corporation;
2(9) Year "year" shall mean the financial year, that is to say, the period beginning from the first of April and ending with the thirty-first of March of the year following;
2(10) All Other Words and Expressions all other words and expressions shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act .