(a) “aggrieved woman” means—
(i) in relation to a workplace, a woman, of any age whether employed or not, who alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment by the respondent;
(ii) in relation to a dwelling place or house, a woman of any age who is employed in such a dwelling place or house;
(b) “appropriate Government” means—(i) in relation to a workplace that is established, owned, controlled, or wholly or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly—
(A) by the Central Government or the Union territory administration, the Central Government;
(B) by the State Government, the State Government;
(ii) in relation to any workplace not covered under sub-clause (i) and falling within its territory, the State Government;
(c) “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Local Complaints Committee nominated under sub-section (1) of section 7;
(d) “District Officer” means on officer notified under section 5;
(e) “domestic worker” means a woman who is employed to do the household work in any household for remuneration whether in cash or kind, either directly or through any agency on a temporary, permanent, part-time, or full-time basis, but does not include any member of the family of the employer;
(f) “employee” means a person employed at a workplace for any work on a regular, temporary, ad hoc, or daily wage basis, either directly or through an agent, including a contractor, with or, without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, or working on a voluntary basis or otherwise, whether the terms of employment are express or implied and includes a co-worker, a contract worker, probationer, trainee, apprentice or called by any other such name;
(g) “employer” means—
(i) In relation to any department, organization, undertaking, establishment, enterprise, institution, office, branch, or unit of the appropriate Government or a local authority, the head of that department, organization, undertaking, establishment, enterprise, institution, office, branch or unit or such other officer as the appropriate Government or the local authority, as the case may be, may by an order specify in this behalf;
(ii) in any workplace not covered under sub-clause (i), any person responsible for the management, supervision, and control of the workplace.
Explanation. —For the purposes of this sub-clause “management” includes the person or board or committee responsible for formulation and administration of policies for such organization;
(iii) in relation to the workplace covered under sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the person discharging contractual obligations with respect to his or her employees;
(iv) in relation to a dwelling place or house, a person or a household who employs or benefits from the employment of a domestic worker, irrespective of the number, time period, or type of such worker employed, or the nature of the employment or activities performed by the domestic worker;
(h) “Internal Committee” means an Internal Complaints Committee constituted under section 4;
(i) “Local Committee” means the Local Complaints Committee constituted under section 6;
(j) “Member” means a Member of the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be;
(k) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(l) “Presiding Officer” means the Presiding Officer of the Internal Complaints Committee nominated under sub-section (2) of section 4;
(m) “respondent’ means a person against whom the aggrieved woman has made a complaint under section 9;
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