Section 73: Interpretation.

In this Act-
"accident" means an occurrence arising out of or in the course of work which results in fatal or non-fatal occupational injury that may lead to compensation under this Act;
"accredited medical practitioner" means a registered medical practitioner or a specialist accredited by the Board for the purposes of this Act;
"Board" means the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund Management Board established under the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund Act, 1993.
"child" means any person not more than 21 years old and who is receiving full time education or any training and is not paid wages; and includes any step-child and child adopted in a manner recognized as lawful in Nigeria;
"compensation" means any amount payable or service provided under this Act in respect of a disabled employee and includes rehabilitation;
"dependant" includes those members of the family, including adoptive and foster family, of the deceased or disabled employee who were wholly dependent upon his earnings at the time of his death, or would, but for the disability due to the occupational accident or diseases, have been so dependent;
"employee" means a person employed by an employer under oral or written contract of employment whether on a continuous, part-time, temporary, apprenticeship or casual basis and includes a domestic servant who is not a member of the family of the employer including any person employed in the Federal, State and Local Governments, and any of the government agencies and in the formal and informal sectors of the economy;
"employer" includes any individual, body corporate, Federal, State or Local Government or any of the government agencies who has entered into a contract of employment to employ any other person as an employee or apprentice;
"enemy war-like action" includes civil insurrection, riots, commotion, conflicts, terrorist act, hostilities;
"Fund" means the Employees' Compensation Fund established under section 56 of this Act;
"industry" includes establishment, undertaking, work, trade, business and any other workplace;
"injury" includes bodily injury or disease resulting from an accident or exposure to critical agents and conditions in a workplace;
"invalid'' means incapable of earning income in any occupation by reasons of some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement;
"interest" means monetary interest calculated at a rate and in a manner set by the Board for the purposes of this Act;
"invalid spouse" means a spouse incapable of earning income in any occupation by reason of some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement;
"member" means a member of the Board and includes the Chairperson;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibilities for matters relating to employment, labour and productivity;
"monthly payments" means monthly payments under this Act to a widow, widower, former common law wife or former common law husband of a deceased worker or to other eligible persons under this Act;
"National Council on Occupational Safety and Health" means the Council established under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2005;
"occupational disease" means a disease contracted arising out of or in the course of exposure to risk factors at work;
"permanent partial disability" means the physical functions or conditions, mental capacity or physiological health arising from and in the course of employment that cause a deviation for more than 12 months from the condition typical for the respective age which restricts participation in the life of society and includes disfigurement;
"permanent total disability" means the physical functions or conditions, mental capacity or physiological health arising from and in the course of employment that cause a deviation for more than 12 months from the condition typical for the respective age which restrict participation in the life of society and includes disfigurement;
"reasonable hour" means from 6a.m. - 6p.m.;
"remuneration" means basic wages, salaries or earnings designated or calculated, capable of being expressed in terms of money and fixed by mutual agreement or by law which are payable by an employer to an employee for work done or to be done or services rendered or to be rendered; and allowances which include rental, transport, meals and utility or other allowances as may be determined by the Board, from time to time;
"spouse" means the person who, at the date of the employee's death, cohabited with the employee, and to whom the employee is legally married, or with whom the employee cohabited as a couple for at least 12 months immediately before the death of the employee;
"workplace" includes any premises or place where a person performs work or needs to be or is required to be in the course of employment;
"work-related'' in reference to a disability of an employee means a disability arising out of and in the course of employment of an employee.