Definition under The Child Labour (Prohibition And Regulation) Act, 1986 :

Section 2 of the Act defines various terms used in the Act, some of the definitions are given here under:

Appropriate Government means, in relation to an establishment 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. [Section 2 (i)]

Child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age. [Section 2(ii)]

Day means a period of twenty-four hours beginning at midnight. [Section 2 (iii)]

Establishment includes a shop, commercial establishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eatinghouse, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment. [Section 2(iv)]

Occupier in relation to an establishment or a workshop, means the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment or workshop. [Section 2 (vi)]

Workshop means any premises (including the precincts thereof) wherein any industrial process is carried on, but does not include any premises to which the provisions of Sec. 67 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), for the time being, apply. [Section 2 (x)]