ISSUE:
Whether Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam can generally be regarded as an industry?
Whether the persons employed by it are workmen?
Whether they can register themselves into a trade union?
Whether the Devasthanam has locus standi to challenge the order of registration of the Registrar of Trade Unions?
RULE:
The Dominant Nature Test states that if there was a complex of activities in a company, the dominating nature of services and integrated nature of the departments would be the main focus of the test.
The Triple Test is a legal test which was established by the Supreme Court of India in order to determine what exactly an industry is, and what can be classified as one. The requisites to classify the same are;
a) Systematic activity
b) Activity concerned between production and services.
c) Goods and services produced are by the satisfaction of human wants
d) Cooperation between employer and employee