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02/11/2024
Laws of Bangladesh

The Control of Employment Ordinance, 1965

( Ordinance NO. XXXII OF 1965 )

Definitions
2. In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
 
 
 
 
(1) “Board” means a Manpower Board constituted under section 4;
 
 
 
 
(2) “essential personnel” has the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (a) of section 2 of the Essential Personnel (Registration) Ordinance, 1948, as amended from time to time;
 
 
 
 
(3) “essential work” means any work relating to the manufacture, production, maintenance or repair of arms, ammunition and equipment or other supplies and any other work which the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be essential work for the purposes of this Ordinance;
 
 
 
 
(4) “industrial undertaking” means,-
 
 
 
 
(a) any concern engaged in-
 
 
 
 
(i) the manufacture or production of any article or commodity;
 
 
 
 
(ii) the supply or distribution of light, power, gas or water;
 
 
 
 
(iii) the supply or maintenance of any kind of mechanised transport;
 
 
 
 
(b) any concern engaged in installing equipment or erecting premises or preparing and producing designs for, or testing the products of, any concern referred to in sub-clause (a);
 
 
 
 
(c) any technical training establishment or centre; and
 
 
 
 
(d) any other undertaking which the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be an industrial undertaking for the purposes of this Ordinance;
 
 
 
 
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(6) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance; and
 
 
 
 
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