Employee’s Compensation Act

SCHEDULE II

(See Section 2(1))(n)

LIST OF PERSONS WHO, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2(1)(N),
ARE INCLUDED IN THE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEES

The following persons are employees within the meaning of Section 2(1)(n) and subject to the provisions of that section, that is to say, any person who is –

(i) employed, otherwise than in a clerical capacity or on a railway, in connection with the operation, repair or maintenance of a lift or a vehicle propelled by steam or other mechanical power or by electricity or in connection with the loading or unloading of any such vehicle; or

(ii) employed, otherwise than in a clerical capacity, in any premises wherein or within the precincts whereof a manufacturing process as defined in clause (k) of Section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), is being carried on, or in any kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with any such manufacturing process or with the article made, whether or not employment in any such work is within such premises or precincts and steam, water or other mechanical power or electrical power is used; or

(iii) employed for the purpose of making, altering, repairing ornamenting, finishing or otherwise adapting for use, transport or sale or any article or part of an article in any premises;

Explanation – For the purposes of this clause, persons employed outside such premises or precincts but in any work incidental to, or connected with, the work relating to making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or otherwise adapting for use, transport or sale any article or part of an article shall be deemed to be employed within such premises or precincts; or

(iv) employed in the manufacture or handling of explosives in connection with the employer’s trade or business; or

(v) employed in any mine as defined in clause (j) of Section 2 of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), in any mining operating or in any kind of work, incidental to or connected with any mining operation or with mineral obtained, or in any kind of work whatsoever below ground; or

(vi) employed as the master or as a seaman of –

(a) any ship which is propelled wholly or in part by steam or other mechanical power or by electricity or which is towed or intended to be towed by a ship so propelled; or

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(vii) employed for the purpose of -

(a) loading, unloading, fuelling, constructing, repairing, demolishing, cleaning or painting any ship of which he is not the master or a member of the crew, or handling or transport within the limits of any port subject to the Ports Act, 1908 (15 of 1908) or the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (38 of 1963), of goods which have been discharged from or are to be loaded into any vessel; or

(b) warping a ship through the lock ; or

(d) removing or replacing dry dock caisoons when vessels are entering or leaving dry docks; or

(e) the docking or undocking or any vessels during an emergency; or

(f) preparing splicing coir springs and check wires, painting depth marks on lock-sides, removing or replacing fenders whenever necessary, landing of gangways, maintaining life-buoys up to standard or any other maintenance work of a like nature; or

(g) any work on jolly-boats for bringing a ship’s line to the wharf; or

(viii) employed in the construction, maintenance, repair or demolition of -

(a) any building which is designed to be or is or has been more than one storey in height above the ground or twelve feet or more from the ground level to the apex of the roof; or

(b) any dam or embankment which is twelve feet or more in height from its lowest to its highest point; or

(d) any wharf, quay, sea-wall or other marine work including any moorings of ships; or

(ix) employed in setting up, maintaining, repairing or taking down any telegraph or telephone line or post or any overhead electric line or cable or post or standard or fittings and fixtures for the same; or

(x) employed, in the construction, working, repair or demolition of any aerial ropeway, canal, pipe-line, or sewer; or

(xi) employed in the service of any fire brigade; or

(xii) employed upon a railway as defined in clause (31) of Section 2 and sub-section (1) of Section 197 of the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989) either directly or through a sub-contractor, by a person fulfilling a contract with the Railway administration; or

(xiii) employed as an inspector, mail guard, sorter or van peon in the Railway Mail Service, or as a telegraphist or as a postal or railway signaller, or employed in any occupation ordinarily involving outdoor work in the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department; or

(xiv) employed, in connection with operation for winning natural petroleum or natural gas; or

(xv) employed in any occupation involving blasting operations; or

(xvi) employed in the making of any excavation or explosives have been used, or whose depth from its highest to its lowest point exceeds twelve feet; or

(xvii) employed in the operation of any ferry boat capable of carrying more than ten person; or

(xviii) employed, on any estate which is maintained for the purpose of growing cardamom, cinchona, coffee, rubber or tea, or

(xix) employed, in the generating, transforming, transmitting or distribution of electrical energy or in generation or supply of gas ; or

(xx) employed in a lighthouse as defined in clause (d) of Section 2 of the Indian Lighthouse Act, 1927 (17 of 1927); or

(xxi) employed in producing cinematograph pictures intended for public exhibition or in exhibiting such pictures; or

(xxii) employed in the training, keeping or working of elephants or wild animals; or

(xxiii) employed in the tapping of palm-trees or the felling or logging of trees, or the transport of timber by inland waters, or the control or extinguishing of forest fires ; or

(xxiv) employed in operations for the catching or hunting of elephants or other wild animals; or

(xxv) employed as a driver; or

(xxvi) employed in the handling or transport of goods in, or within the precincts of, -

(a) any warehouse or other place in which goods are stored, or

(b) any market or

(xxvii) employed in any occupation involving the handling and manipulation of radium or X-rays apparatus, or contact with radioactive substances, or

(xxviii) employed in or in connection with the construction, erection, dismantling, operation or maintenance of an aircraft as defined in Section 2 of the Indian Aircraft Act, 1934 (22 of 1934); or

(xxix) employed in horticultural operations, forestry, bee-keeping or farming by tractors or other contrivances driven by steam or other mechanical power or by electricity; or

(xxx) employed, in the construction, working, repair or maintenance of a tube-well, or

(xxxi) employed in the maintenance, repair or renewal of electric fittings in any building; or

(xxxii) employed in a circus.

(xxxiii) employed as watchman in any factory or establishment; or

(xxxiv) employed in any operation in the sea for catching fish; or

(xxxv) employed in any employment which requires handling of snakes for the purpose of extraction of venom or for the purpose of looking after snakes or handling any other poisonous animal or insect ; or

(xxxvi) employed in handling animals like horses, mules and bulls; or

(xxxvii) employed for the purpose of loading or unloading any mechanically propelled vehicle or in the handling or transport of goods which have been loaded in such vehicles; or

(xxxviii) employed in cleaning of sewer lines or septic tanks within the limits of a local authority; or

(xxxix) employed on surveys and investigation, exploration or gauge or discharge observation of rivers including drilling operation, hydrological observations and flood forecasting activities, ground water surveys and exploration; or

(xl) employed in cleaning of jungles or reclaiming land or ponds or

(xli) employed in cultivation of land or rearing and maintenance of live-stock or forest operations of fishing or

(xlii) employed in installation, maintenance or repair of pumping equipment used for lifting of water from wells, tubewells, ponds, lakes, streams and the like; or

(xliii) employed in the construction boring or deepening of an open well or dug well, bore well, bore-cum-dug well, filter-point and the like; or

(xliv) employed in spraying and dusting of insecticides or pesticides in agricultural operations of plantation ; or

(xlv) employed in mechanised harvesting and threshing operations; or

(xlvi) employed in working or repair or maintenance of bulldozers, tractors, power tillers and the like ; or

(xlvii) employed as artist for drawing pictures on advertisement boards at a height of 3.66 metres or more from the ground level; or

(xlviii) employed in any newspaper establishment as defined in the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 and engaged in outdoor work.

(xlix) Employed as divers for work under water