Employees should know some details like this:
Definitions
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:
1. "Appropriate Government" means, in respect of establishments under the control of the Central Government or a railway administration or a major port or a mine or oilfield, the Central Government, and in all other cases, the State Government.
2. "Confinement" means labor resulting in the issue of a living child, or labor after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead.
3. "Contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Corporation by the principal employer in respect of an employee and includes any amount payable by or on behalf of the employee in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
4. "Corporation" means the Employees' State Insurance Corporation set up under this Act.
5. "Dependant" means any of the following relatives of a deceased insured person, namely:
- A widow, a minor legitimate or adopted son, an unmarried legitimate and adopted daughter.
- A widowed mother.
Subs. by the A. O. 1950 for "a federal railway". Omitted by Act 29 1989, s. 3 (w. e. f..........). Ins. by Act 44 of 1966, s. 2 (w. e. f. 28-1-1968). Subs. by Act 29 of 1989, s. 3 (w. e. f. 20-10-1989). Ins. by s. 3, ibid. (w. e. f. 20-10-1989).
- If wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of his death, a legitimate or adopted son or daughter who has attained the age of eighteen years and is infirm.
- If wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of his death:
- A parent other than a widowed mother,
- A minor illegitimate son, an unmarried illegitimate daughter or a daughter legitimate or adopted or illegitimate if married and a minor or if widowed and a minor,
- A minor brother or an unmarried sister or a widowed sister if a minor,
- A widowed daughter-in-law,
- A minor child of a pre-deceased son,
- A minor child of a pre-deceased daughter where no parent of the child is alive, or
- A paternal grandparent if no parent of the insured person is alive.
6. "Family" means all or any of the following relatives of an insured person, namely:
- A spouse;
- A minor legitimate or adopted child dependent upon the insured person;
- A child who is wholly dependent on the earnings of the insured person and who is:
- Receiving education, till he or she attains the age of twenty-one years,
- An unmarried daughter;
- A child who is infirm by reason of any physical or mental abnormality or injury and is wholly dependent.
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