Chapter I PRELIMINARY

(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Khadi and Village Industries Board Act 1957. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (i) ‘Board’ means the Kerala Khadi and Village Industries Board established under section 4, (ii) ‘khadi’ means any cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, silk or woollen yarn handspun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns ; (ii-a) ‘Khadi and Village Industries Commission’ means the Khadi and Village Industries Commission established under section 4 of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 (Central Act 61 of 1956); (ii-b) ‘Local Authority’ means a panchayath at any level constituted under section 4 of the Kerala Panchayath Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) or a municipality Constituted under section 4 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994); (iii) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (iv) (IV) ‘regulations’ means regulations made by the Board under this Act; (iv-a) ‘Secretary’ means the secretary to the Board appointed under sub-section (1) of section10: (V) ‘village industries’ means all or any of the industries specified in the Schedule to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 (61 of 1956), and includes any other industry declared by the Government under section 3 to be a village industry.

(1) The Government may, by notification in the Gazette, declare any industry to be a village industry to which this Act applies. (2) A copy of every notification issued under sub-section shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly as soon as may be, after it is issued.