"Employer" when used in relation to a plantation, means the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the plantations, and where the affairs of the plantations, and where the affairs of any plantation are entrusted to any other person (whether called a managing agent, manager, superintendent or by any other name) such other person shall be deemed to be the employer in relations to that plantation.

"Plantation" means any plantation to which this Act, whether wholly or in part, applies and includes offices, hospitals, dispensaries, schools, and any other premises used for any purpose connected with such plantation, but does not include any factory on the premises to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), apply.

"Worker" means a person employed in a plantation for hire or reward, whether directly or through any agency, to do any agency, to do any work, skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical and includes a person employed on contract for more than sixty days in a year, but does not include.

1. A medical officer employed in the plantation
2. Any person employed in the plantation (including any member of the medical staff) whose monthly wages exceed rupees ten thousand.
3. Any person employed in the plantation primarily in a managerial or administrative capacity, notwithstanding that his monthly wages do not exceed rupee ten thousand.
4. Any person temporarily employed in the plantation in any work relating to the construction, development or maintenance of building, roads, bridges, drains or canals;