Handloom Workers Welfare Fund

(1) The Government shall, by notification in the Gazette, frame a scheme to be called the Handloom Workers Welfare Fund Scheme for the establishment of a Fund for the handloom workers in the State of Kerala and there shall be established, as soon as may be after the framing of the scheme, a Fund in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the Scheme. (2) There shall be credited to the Fund: (a) the contributions specified in section 4; (b) the amount borrowed by the Board; (c) damages realised under section 14; (d) grants or loans or advances made by the Government; (e) any other amount to be credited to the Fund under the provisions of the Scheme. (3) The Fund shall vest in, and be administered by, the Board.