Handicraft - Indian Laws - General

Handicraft In the Encyclopaedia Britannica , handicraft has been defined as follows: Occupation of making by hand usable products graced with visual appeal. Handicrafts encompass activities that require a broad range of skills and equipment, including needle work, lace-making, weaving printed textile, decoration, basketry, pottery, ornamental metal working, jewelling, leather working, wood working, glassblowing, and the making of stained glass. PADMINI PRODUCTS VERSUS COLLECTOR OF C. EX. - 1989 (8) TMI 80 - SUPREME COURT The New International Webster s Comprehensive Dictionary of the English language defines Handicrafts as a skill and expertness in working with the hand or as a Trade calling for such skill. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary explains the expression as a particular skill of making decorative domestic or other objects by hand or as an object made using a skill of this kind . P. Ramanatha Aiyar s The Law Lexicon provides the following definition for the expression :- Manual skill; manual art or trade. In the Workshop Regulation Act Handicrafts means any Manual Labour exercised by way of Trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to the making of any Article or part of an Article, or in or incidental to the altering repairing, ornamenting finished or otherwise adapting for sale, any Article. handicraft means any manual labour exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to the making any article or part of an article, or in or incidental to the altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing, or otherwise adapting for sale, any article. AME DE VERRE (P) LTD. VERSUS COMMISSIONER TRADE AND TAXES - 2015 (4) TMI 966 - DELHI HIGH COURT