Working Journalists (Industrial Disputes) Act,1995
Section 2. Definitions
In this Act,
(a) “newspaper” has the meaning assigned to it in the Press and Registration of Books Act,1867 (25 of 1867);
(b) “working journalist” means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such in, or in relation to, any establishment for the production or publication of a newspaper or in , or in relation to, any news agency or syndicate supplying material for publication in any newspaper, and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy-tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographer and proof-reader, but does not include any such person who-
(i) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or
(ii) being employed in a supervisory capacity, exercise, either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him functions mainly of a. managerial nature.
