Section 15: Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"the Committee" means any State Committee of the Council established by section 8 of this Act;
"the Council" means the National Housing Facilitation Council established by section 6 of this Act;
"designated employer" has the meaning assigned thereto in section 1 of this Act;
"employee" means any person who has entered into or works under a contract (whether expressed or implied or oral or written) with an employer, whether the contract is for manual labour, clerical work or for the discharge of administrative, executive, technical or professional functions and whether such contract is a contract of service or a contract personally to execute any work or labour, but does not include-(a) any person employed otherwise than for the purposes of the employer's business;
(b) members of the employer's family;
(c) independent representatives, agents and commercial travellers; or
(d) any person to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, repaired or adapted for sale in his own home or on other premises not under the control or management of the person who gave out the articles or the material;
"employer" means any person who has entered into a contract of employment to employ any person as an employee either for himself or for the service of any other person, and includes the agent, manager or factor of that first-mentioned person and the personal representatives of a deceased employer;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for the welfare of labour.