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The Payment of Wages (Nomination) Rules

Section 2: Definitions

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, -

(a) ‘Act’ means the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936);


(b) ‘family’ means all or any day of the following relatives of an employed person, namely –

(i ) a spouse;

(ii) a minor child dependant upon the employed person;

(iii) a child who is wholly dependant on the earnings of the employed person and who is receiving education, till he or she attains the age of twenty one years;


(iv) an unmarried daughter;

(v) a son or daughter who is infirm by reason of any physical or mental abnormality or injury and is wholly dependant on the earnings of the employed person, so long as the infirmity continues;


(c) ‘Minor’ means a person who has not completed the age of eighteen years.

Explanation – For the purpose of this rule, “child” means and includes an adopted child, and any reference to “son” or “daughter” shall be constructed accordingly.