Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Board", means the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Workers' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 6; (b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 9; (c) "Contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 4; (d) "employer" means a person who employs, directly or indirectly; whether, on behalf of himself or for any other person, one or more workers to do any work in institutions including hospital, nursing home, ayurvedic pharmacy, dispensary, medical shop, paramedical institution, parcel service, petrol-diesel-autogas bunks, fish processing establishment, food processing establishment, textile manufacturing establishment, hotel, restaurant, meat shop, computer-computer allied service establishment, printing press, telephone booth; courier service, cooking gas distribution agency, hostel, hill produce-procurement and marketing establishment, small scale copra processing unit, small scale oil mill, leather procurement establishment, small scale foot wear-bag manufacturing establishment, cinema theatre, photo/video studio, bakery, automobile-engineering establishment, establishment providing sound, light and decoration or in trade/commercial establishments coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960; (34 of 1960); (e) "family" means,- husband/wife, their minor children, unmarried daughters; and father, mother and widowed daughters who are dependent on the worker or self employed person, coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act; (f) "Fund" means the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Workers' Welfare Fund established under section 3; (g) "Worker" means an employee coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960, (34 of 1960) and includes a person employed in Establishments including hospitals, nursing home, ayurvedic pharmacy, dispensary, medical shop, paramedical institution, parcel service, petrol-diesel-autogas bunks, fish processing establishment, food processing establishment, textile manufacturing establishment, hotel, restaurant, meat shop, computer-computer allied service establishment, printing press, telephone booth, courier service, cooking gas distribution agency, hostel, hill produce-procurement and marketing establishment, small scale copra processing unit, small scale oil mill, leather procurement establishment, small scale foot wear-bag manufacturing establishment: cinema theatre, photo/video studio, bakery, automobile-engineering establishment, establishment providing sound, light and decoration or in trade/commercial establishments and who receives wages from the employer directly or otherwise or through contractor or agent or by agreement or otherwise or a self employed person and any other person, declared by the Government from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, for the purposes of this Act to be an employee coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act: "employer" means a person who employs, directly or indirectly, whether on behalf of himself or for any other person, one or more workers to do any work in institutions including hospital, nursing' home, ayurvedic pharmacy, dispensai'y, medical shop, paramedical institution, parcel service, petrol-diesel-autogas bunks, fish processing establishment, food processing establishment, textile manufacturing establishment, hotel, restaurant, meat shop, computer-computer allied service establishment, printing press, telephone booth, courier service, cooking gas distribution agency, hostel, hill produce-procurement and marketing establishment, small scale copra processing unit, small scale oil mill, leather procurement establishment, small scale foot wear-bag manufacturing establishment, cinema theatre, photo/video studio, bakery, automobile-engineering establishment, establishment providing sound, light and decoration or in trade/commercial establishments coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960 (34 of 1960); "family" means, husband/wife, their minor children, unmarried daughters; and father, mother and widowed daughters who are dependent on the worker or self employed person, coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establislimcnts Act; (f) "Fund" means the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Workers' Welfare Fund established under section 3; (g) "Worker" means an employee coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Conimercial Establishments Act, 1960, (34 of 1960) and includes a person employed in Establishments including hospitals, nursing home, ayurvedic pharmacy, dispensary, medical shop, paramedical institution, parcel service, petrol-diesel-autogas bunks, fish processing establishment, food processing establishment, textile manufacturing establishment, hotel, restaurant, meat shop, computer-computer allied service establishment, printing press, telephone booth, courier service, cooking gas distribution agency, hostel, lull produce-procurement and marketing establishment, small scale copra processing unit, small scale oil mill, leather procurement establishment, small scale foot wear-bag manufacturing establishment: cinema theatre, photo/video studio, bakery, automobile-engineering establishment, establishment providing sound, light and decoration or in trade/ commercial establishments and who receives wages from the employer directly or btherwise or through contractor or agent or by agreement or otherwise or a self employed person and any other person, declared by the Government from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, for the purposes of this Act to be an employee coining under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act: Provided that the employees coming under the purview of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948) or the Plantation Labour Act, 1951 (Central Act 69 of 1951) or those working in the Establishments where any other Welfare Fund of the Government of Kerala, are applicable and in Establishments exempted by the Government, from the provisions of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960 and those who are getting benefit under the purview of any other law, for the time being in force, shall not be included in this Welfare Fund; (h) "member" means a member of the Fund; (i) "person" includes a company, a firm, an association of individuals or a co-operative society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969); "schedule" means the schedule to this Act; "scheme" means a scheme framed under section 3; (1) "self employed person" means a person who actually engages himself mainly in a work coming under the purview of the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1960 for the livelihood, without employing any workers, and which does not include a person who is a member of Vyapari Vyavasayi Welfare Fund or Ration Dealers Welfare Fund; "wages" means the total amount received by an employee including dearness allowance and other allowances in a calendar month; "year" means a financial year commencing on the 1st day of April. (As provided for in the context of the amendment acts cited in the document: specific definitions of terms like 'employee', 'employer', and 'welfare fund' are implied in the operational clauses of the Act.)