Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 44.In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires " earnings" shall have the same meaning as in the Employees" Provident Fund Act, No. 15 of 1958 ; "employee" includes any apprentice or learner who is paid a remuneration ; "employer" means any person who employs, or on whose behalf any other person employs, any workman and includes a body of employers (whether such body is a firm, company, corporation or trade union) and any person, who on behalf of any other person, employs any workman, and includes the legal heir, successor in law. executor or administrator and liquidator of a company and in the case of an unincorporated body, the President or the Secretary of such body, and in the case of a partnership, the managing partner or manager ; " prescribed" means prescribed by regulation ; " private sector undertaking" means any undertaking carried on by an employer in the private sector and includes any undertaking carried on by a self employed person ; " public corporation" means any corporation, board or other body, which was or is established under any written law, other than the Companies Ordinance,. with funds or capital wholly or partly provided by the Government by way of grant, loan or otherwise ; " registered medical practitioner" means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Ordinance or an ayurvedic practitioner registered under the Ayurvedic Act, No, 31 of 1961 ; and " State undertaking " means any public corporation or any business undertaking vested in the Government under any written law, or any branch or section of such corporation or business undertaking. |