Section 2
Definitions
Unless the subject or the context otherwise requires, in this Act,-
(a) ………………. 2
(b) 3 “Communication enterprise” means a public or private communication media or corporate body established or registered under the laws in force with the objective of operating any business or service relating to communication and in which Three or more than Three working journalists, employees or workers are engaged to work.
(c) “Manager” means a person who has authority to make final decision on the operation of business of any communication enterprise.
(d) 4 “Working journalist” means a person who does communication related business or service as a main business and is engaged either whole-time or part-time in a communication enterprise in consideration for remuneration, other than a person who has managerial and administrative powers in a communication enterprise, and this term also includes a person who is related with the profession of journalism such as a chief editor, editor who collects, produces, edits or transmits news items in, or a correspondent, stringer, news reader, programme director,
translator, web designer, columnist, photo journalist, press cameraperson, cartoonist, programme producer or operator, audio or language editor, in a communication enterprise.
(e) 5 “Employee” means a person who is involved in the administrative, managerial, technical or other functions of a communication enterprise, other than a person who has power to make final decision in relation to managerial and administrative affairs of such an enterprise.
(e1) 6 “Worker” means a person who is involved in the sale and distribution or production of communication materials or in any other labour-work in a communication enterprise, other than a working journalist or employee.
(f) “Remuneration” means salary drawn by a working journalist from a communication enterprise in consideration for his or her service in the communication enterprise.
(g) 7 “Committee” means the minimum remuneration fixation committee formed pursuant to Section 11.
(h) “Family” means the husband, wife, son, …… 8 daughter, adopted son, …… 9 adopted daughter, father, mother or step mother who lives with a working journalist and whom the working journalist himself or herself has to maintain and subsist, and this term also includes his grand-father and grand-mother, in the case of a male working journalist, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law, in the case of a female working journalist.
(i) “Press Registrar” means the Press Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 19 of the Press and Publication Act, 2048 (1991).
(j) “Prescribed” or “as prescribed” means prescribed or as prescribed in the Rules framed under this Act.
(a) ………………. 2
(b) 3 “Communication enterprise” means a public or private communication media or corporate body established or registered under the laws in force with the objective of operating any business or service relating to communication and in which Three or more than Three working journalists, employees or workers are engaged to work.
(c) “Manager” means a person who has authority to make final decision on the operation of business of any communication enterprise.
(d) 4 “Working journalist” means a person who does communication related business or service as a main business and is engaged either whole-time or part-time in a communication enterprise in consideration for remuneration, other than a person who has managerial and administrative powers in a communication enterprise, and this term also includes a person who is related with the profession of journalism such as a chief editor, editor who collects, produces, edits or transmits news items in, or a correspondent, stringer, news reader, programme director,
translator, web designer, columnist, photo journalist, press cameraperson, cartoonist, programme producer or operator, audio or language editor, in a communication enterprise.
(e) 5 “Employee” means a person who is involved in the administrative, managerial, technical or other functions of a communication enterprise, other than a person who has power to make final decision in relation to managerial and administrative affairs of such an enterprise.
(e1) 6 “Worker” means a person who is involved in the sale and distribution or production of communication materials or in any other labour-work in a communication enterprise, other than a working journalist or employee.
(f) “Remuneration” means salary drawn by a working journalist from a communication enterprise in consideration for his or her service in the communication enterprise.
(g) 7 “Committee” means the minimum remuneration fixation committee formed pursuant to Section 11.
(h) “Family” means the husband, wife, son, …… 8 daughter, adopted son, …… 9 adopted daughter, father, mother or step mother who lives with a working journalist and whom the working journalist himself or herself has to maintain and subsist, and this term also includes his grand-father and grand-mother, in the case of a male working journalist, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law, in the case of a female working journalist.
(i) “Press Registrar” means the Press Registrar appointed pursuant to Section 19 of the Press and Publication Act, 2048 (1991).
(j) “Prescribed” or “as prescribed” means prescribed or as prescribed in the Rules framed under this Act.