Unless the subject or context otherwise requires; in this Act-
(a) “Bonded labour (Kamaya shram)” means the labour or service to be rendered for a creditor for the following reasons without wages
or with nominal wages.
(1) To pay back the debt obtained by him/ her or family and to pay the interest thereof.
(2) To pay back the debt obtained by his/her ascendant and to pay back the interest thereof.
(3) To pay back the bonded debt of bonded labourer by a person who has given a guarantee before the creditor
on behalf of a bonded labourer.
(b) ‘Bonded labourer’ means a person who is working as a bonded labourer in the name of Bhaisawar, Gaiwar, Bardikar,, Chhekarwar,
Haruwa, Charuwa, Hali, Gothlo kamalariya or by any other similar name.
(c) “Bonded debt” means the cash, commodity or kind obtained by the bonded labourer from a creditor and this expression also includes
“Sauki or other debt.
(d) “Creditor” means a person who provides debt to a bonded labourer.
(e) “Family” means father, mother, husband, wife, son or unmarried daughter and this expression also includes coparcener of bonded
labourer if the bonded labourer is the head the joint family.
(f) “Freed bonded labourer” means a bonded labourer who has been set free pursuant to Section 3.
(g) “Committee” means Freed Bonded Labourer Rehabilitation and Monitoring Committee constituted pursuant to Section 8.
(h) “Welfare Officer” means the welfare officer as referred to in Section
(i) “Fund” means the Fund as referred to in Section 12.
(j) “Agro-labour” means a person who carries out the work prescribed by the Government of Nepal by publishing a Notification in the
Nepal gazette.
(k) “Prescribed” or “as prescribed” means prescribed or as prescribed in the Rules framed under this Act.