Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) 'Board' means the "Kerala Jewellery Workers’ Welfare Fund Board" constituted under section 19; (b) ‘Chief Executive Officer’ means the ‘Chief Executive Officer’ appointed under sub-section (1) of section 21; (c) ‘contribution’ means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 4; (d) ‘dealer’ means the establishment or person or an agent who engaged in the processing of gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) or buys or sells jewellery or figures or other products made by using its alloy or product; (e)‘employer’ means the person who make use of the service of one or more workers either directly or through another person, in his own establishment or in other places for manufacturing jewellery or figures or any other product by using gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) or its alloy or product or for moulding or for processing or for connected work and includes, if an establishment, its main administrative controller, the contractor who appoints or controls the workers, the Manager and other persons known in any other name; (f) 'family' means,—(i) Husband or wife, their minor children, major mentally retarded children, unmarried daughters including adopted children; and(ii) father, mother and widowed daughters who are solely dependent upon the worker or self-employed person; (g) ‘Fund’ means the Kerala Jewellery Workers’ Welfare Fund to be constituted under section 3; (h) ‘jewellery’ means the ornaments, figures, articles and other forms and of modifications, products, which are made after mixing/processing for putting on or for decorating or for any other use which are made mainly by using gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) etc., or its alloy; (i)‘member’ means a member of the Fund; (j) ‘nominated person’ means the person nominated and includes a person who comes under the definition of family; (k) ‘person’ includes a company or an establishment or an association of individuals or a co-operative society registered or to be registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969) or an association which is legal or not or trust or firm or establishment which is either religious or social; (l)‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules or schemes made under this Act; (m)‘Schedule’ means the Schedule to this Act; (n) ‘Scheme’ means the "Kerala Jewellery Workers’ Welfare Scheme” framed under section 3; (o) ‘self employed person’ means the person who is really engaged himself for his livelihood mainly in the works and connected works of processing gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) or its alloy or of modifications or other products and manufacturing or moulding any form of jewellery or figures or other products by using it and does not include a person who is working under any employer; (p)‘worker’ means the person who is engaged under an employer directly or otherwise or through an agent or on contract basis, or otherwise mainly in the works and connected works of processing gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) or its alloy or modifications or other products and manufacturing or modifying any form of jewellery or figure or other products by using it; (q) ‘year’ means a financial year from 1st April to 31 st March of the next year; (r)‘sale proceeds’ means the value of final sale of gold, silver, platinum, copper, brass, bronze, bullion, gem, pearl (except artificial pearl) and jewellery or figures or other products made by using that obtained after processing or its alloy or products made by the dealer to the consumer in the State of Kerala;