allowance or privilege or any subscription paid by employer for the work to any social insurance project such as provident fund, or pension, or life insurance, or special expenses paid by the employer to the worker. “ Members of the family” means husband or wife, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, son, daughter, granddaughter, grandson, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, and stepdaughter. “Dependent family ” means those members of the family of the worker who are wholly or partly dependent upon his earning. “ Licensing ” means obtaining license in the prescribed form for erecting a new factory or an extension to an existing one or carrying out other industrial operations and it includes also obtaining a license for making alterations relating to the arrangement, erection or organisation of machinery. “ Accident” means any injury or occupational disease set out in schedule No. (6) hereto, which occurs to the worker in the course of employment or being caused thereby; and disables him from performing his work and also means any fire, explosion or collapse which occurs in the factory. “ Serious Accident” means any accident causing death or 50 percent or more disability, or causing injury to more than one worker, and also fire, explosion or collapse that causes damage in the means of production or places of work. “Infant” means any person under 16 years of age. “ Continuous service” means continuous service with same employer starting from the date of employment and includes the period of training and the probationary period specified in section 29 (4). “ Worker ” means any person male or female not less than 16 years old who performs work in return for wages of whatever type in service and subject to the management or supervision of the employer, whether his contract of service is written or oral, expressed or implied or for the purpose of training or probation, or who performs manual or semi manual work whether skilled or unskilled in consideration of wage of whatever kind. “ Production Worker“ means the worker whose wage is based on the amount of daily work or piecework. “ Casual Worker” means any person who performs temporary work in a factory for a period not exceeding fifteen days and of a nature, which is not included within the activity performed in the factory. “ Contract of service” means any contract whether written or oral, expressed or implied, where under any person is employed under the supervision and control of an employer for a wage of any kind but shall not include contracts of apprenticeship and under the apprenticeship and Vocational Training Act, 1974 “ Competent authority” means the Minister or Wali whatever so requires “ Employer” means any person who employs by contact of service one person or more for a wage of any kind. “Medical Practitioner ” means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Council Act 1992. “ Commission ” means the Federal Commission for manpower established under section 5(1) of this Act. “Sub-Commission ” means the Sub-Commission for manpower established under section 5(2) of this Act. “Substance” includes any solid, liquid, gas or any other compound. “ The Council“ means the Council of Labour Relations established by section 70 (1) “Labour Office ” means any office established by the competent authorities for the enforcement of the functions of this Act “ Employer ” in the case of (a) The private and mixed sector it means: every national person or body corporate who employs one or more employees under contract of service and it includes: 6