Definitions.

(1)In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

*Received the assent of the Governor on the 13th day of April,2007 and published in the Kerala Extraordinary Gazette No. 705 dated 13th April,2007.

1. (a) "allied worker" means any person who is engaged mainly in fishery related activities for his livelihood and who does not come under the definition of the term 'fishermen' in clause (e) of section 2 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Societies Act, 1980 (7 of 1981) and includes beach workers, fish distributors, fish curers, peeling workers and processing plant workers who are not members or not eligible to get membership, in any other statutory welfare Scheme;
2. (b) "Assessing Officer" means an officer appointed by the Government under section 5;
3. (c) "Board" means the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 7 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Act, 1985 ( 30 of 1985);
4. (d) "dealer" means any person who engages in the business of buying and selling of fish or processing fish or bringing into the State or sending outside the State -the fish (raw or processed) or fish product or allied objects or equipments, and includes,—
   • (i) a commission agent, a broker, auctioneer or any other mercantile agent by whatever name called, and
   • (ii) a non-resident dealer or an agent of a non-resident dealer or a branch of a firm or company or association situated outside the State: Provided that, fishermen and allied worker as defined in the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Act, 1985 (30 of 1985) shall not be included in this.
5. (e) "fish" means shrimp, prawn, mussel, clam, cuttlefish, squids, crab including all varieties of fish or any other aquatic organisms and aquatic plants and ornamental fishes exploited commercially for edible or medicinal purposes or for manure or feed;
6. (f) "fisherman" means a fisherman as defined in clause (e) of section 2 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Societies Act, 1980 ( 7 of 1981);
7. (g) "fishing vessel" means a ship or boat, whether or not fixed with mechanical means of propulsion, which is engaged in fishing for profit and includes,— a catamaran, vanchi or vallom or by any craft known by local variations thereof;
8. (h) "fund" means the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund established under section 3 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Act, 1985;
   • (i) "Government" means the Government of Kerala;
9. (j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
10. (k) "Sale proceeds" means the sale value of all transactions carried out in the State including buying or selling, bringing in or sending outside the State, fish or fish products or allied objects or equipments for use or for processing otherwise.

1. (2) Words and expressions used in this Act but not defined and defined in the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Act, 1985 shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in that Act.