Short title and commencement: (1) These recommendations may be called the Manisana (Wage Board) Award.

(2) The Award shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April 1998.

2. Definitions- In this Award, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(1) "Act" means the Working Journalist and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (XLV of 1955);

(2) "Accounting year" used with reference to a particular year shall in the case of newspaper establishment mean financial year, the year commencing on the first day of April. In case, however the accounting year of a newspaper establishment is different from financial year it shall mean that accounting year of the establishment, of which more than half falls in the particular year. In case of the newspaper establishment whose accounting year starts from Ist day of October, the accounting year would be that year in which the first six months fall.

Illustration,- If the accounting year of a newspaper establishment starts from first day of January, 1998, reference to the accounting year 1998 in this Award shall be construed as reference to accounting year 1998-99. Again, if the accounting year of the newspaper establishment starts from Ist  day of October, reference to accounting year 1998 in this Award will be construed as reference to the accounting year 1998-99 of that establishment.

(3) "Basic wage" means wages drawn in the prescribed scale of wages. including stagnation increment, if any, but does not include any other type of wages or pay, like special pay, personal pay, etc.

(4) 'Category' means any of those newspaper employees mentioned under the groups set out in this Award.

(5) 'Gross revenue of a  news agency' means its total revenue from all sources, including subscription revenue derived by selling its services.

(6) 'News agency' means an establishment conducting any news agency or syndicate, that is to say, a news agency is an undertaking of which the principle objective is to gather or collect news and news material and to distribute it to a group of news enterprises and, in exceptional circumstances, to provide individual with a view to providing them with as complete and impartial a news service as possible, against payment with and under condition compatible business laws and usage. (sic)

(7) "Newspaper employee" means working journalist, or non-journalist newspaper employee, or both.

(8) "Schedule" means a schedule annexed to this Award.

(9) "Table" means a table annexed to this Award.

(10) The words and expressions "newspaper establishment", "working journalist" and "non-journalist newspaper employees" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.

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