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 SEC. 1] ::Explanation. For the purposes of this sub-clause "management" includes the person or board or committee responsible for formulation and administration of polices for such organisation;
 * (iii) in relation to workplace covered under sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the person discharging contractual obligations with respect to his or her employees;
 * (iv) in relation to a dwelling place or house, a person or a household who employs or benefits from the employment of domestic worker, irrespective of the number, time period or type of such worker employed, or the nature of the employment or activities performed by the domestic worker;
 * (h) "Internal Committee" means an Internal Complaints Committee constituted under section 4;
 * (i) "Local Committee" means the Local Complaints Committee constituted under section 6;
 * (j) "Member" means a Member of the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be;
 * (k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
 * (l) "Presiding Officer" means the Presiding Officer of the Intermal Complaints

Committce nominated under sub-scction (2) of section 4;
 * (m) "respondent" means a person against whom the aggrieved woman has made

a complaint under section 9;
 * (n) "sexual harassment" includes any one or more of the following unwelcome acts or behavior (whether directly or by implication) namely:-
 * (i) physical contact and advances; or
 * (ii) a demand or request for sexual favours; or
 * (iii) making sexually coloured remarks; or
 * (iv) showing pornography; or
 * (v) any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature;
 * (o)"workplace" includes
 * (i) any department, organisation, undertaking, establishment, enterprise, institution, office, branch or unit which is established, owned, controlled or wholly or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the appropriate Government or the local authority or a Government company or a corporation or a co-operative society;
 * (ii) any private sector organisation or a private venture, undertaking, enterprise, institution, establishment, society, trust, non-governmental organisation, unit or service provider carrying on commercial, professional, vocational, educational, entertainmental, industrial, health services or financial activities including production, supply, sale, distribution or service;
 * (iii) hospitals or nursing homes;
 * (iv) any sports institute, stadium, sports complex or competition or games venue, whether residential or not used for training, sports or other activities relating thereto;
 * (v) any place visited by the employee arising out of or during the course of employment including transportation provided by the employer for undertaking such journey;