Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) ‘Anand Pattern Milk Producers Co-operative Society’ means those Milk Producers Co-operative Societies in the name Anand Pattern Co-operative Societies which are under the administrative control of the Dairy Development Department and registered and functioning in the State after 1st January, 1980 as per the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969) and the rules made thereunder; (aa) "Board" means the Kerala Dairy Farmers' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 8; (b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 11; (c) "contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 7; (d) "Dairy Farmer" means a person who owns or rear one or more cows or she buffalos and giving milk in the State in a milk co-operative society functioning in his dwelling place or in a milk society nearby the area of his dwelling place, due to the reason that no milk Co-operative society is functioning in such place; (e) "family" means,— (i) wife or husband of the Dairy farmer, their minor or mentally retarded or physically challenged children and unmarried daughters; (ii) father and mother who are dependant upon the Dairy farmer; (f) "Fund" means the Dairy Farmers' Welfare Fund established under section 3; (g) "Member" means a member of the Fund; (h) "Milma" means the Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation; (i) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (j) "Regional Union" means the apex society functioning in the milk co-operative sector; (k) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act; (l) "Scheme" means the Kerala Dairy Farmers' Welfare Scheme framed under this Act; (m) "Society" means Primary Milk Co-operative society registered or deemed to be registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969) and functioning under the Dairy Development Department; (ma) ‘Traditional Primary Milk Co-operative Society’ means the Primary Milk Co-operative Societies such as Dairy Co-operative Societies, Milk Producers Co-operative Societies, under the administrative control of the Dairy Development Department, which were registered and functioning prior to the commencement of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969) as per the erstwhile Co-operative laws in Travancore, Kochi, Travancore-Kochi and Malabar areas and those which were registered before the 1st January, 1980 and functioning after the commencement of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 as per the said Act and rules made thereunder; (n) "Year" means the financial year;