Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “Board” means the Kerala Construction Workers' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 6; (b) “construction work” means any civil engineering or construction work but does not include any work under the Central or State Government or any local authority which is of a casual nature and is not connected with the construction of any building or other structure; (c) “construction worker” means any person who is employed to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied, in connection with any construction work, but does not include any such person who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity; (d) “employer” in relation to any construction work, means any person who employs, whether directly or through another person, or whether on behalf of himself or any other person, one or more construction workers in connection with the construction work and includes— (i) in a building or other construction work carried on by or under the authority of any department of the Government of Kerala, the authority specified in this behalf, or where no authority is specified, the head of the department; (ii) in any building or other construction work carried on by or on behalf of a local authority or other establishment, the chief executive officer of that authority or establishment; (iii) in any other case, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the construction work and includes to whom the affairs of the construction work are entrusted; (e) “Fund” means the Construction Workers' Welfare Fund constituted under section 3; (f) “member” means a construction worker registered under section 4; (g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) “welfare scheme” means the scheme framed under this Act. The section entry is maintained as per requirements.] In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "appropriate Government" means— (i) in relation to any establishment belonging to, or under the control of, the Central Government, a railway administration, a major port, a mine or an oilfield, the Central Government; (ii) in relation to any other establishment, the State Government; (b) "building or other construction work" means the construction, alteration, repairs, maintenance or demolition, of or, in relation to, buildings, streets, roads, railways, tramways, airfields, irrigation, drainage, embankment and navigation works, flood control works (including storm drainage works), generation, transmission and distribution of power, water works (including channels for distribution of water), oil and gas installations, electric lines, wireless, radio, television, telephone, telegraph and overseas communication dams, canals, reservoirs, watercourses, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, aquaducts, pipelines, towers, cooling towers, transmission towers and such other activity as maybe specified in this behalf by the appropriate Government by notification; (c) "construction worker" means a person who is employed to do any skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled, manual, supervisory, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be expressed or implied, in connection with any building or other construction work but does not include any such person who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity or who, being employed in a supervisory capacity, draws wages exceeding one thousand six hundred rupees per mensem or exercises, either by the nature of the duties attached to the office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; (d) "establishment" means any establishment which carries on any building or other construction work and includes an establishment belonging to a contractor; (e) "Fund" means the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Fund constituted under section 3.