Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator appointed under section 14;
2. (b) "Commissioner" means an officer not below the rank of the Secretary to Government, who professes the Hindu Religion and believes in Temple worship, appointed by the Government, by notification in the Gazette, to be the Commissioner for the purposes of this Act;
3. (c) "Committee" means the Koodalmanickam Devaswom Managing Committee constituted under section 3;
4. (d) "Court" means the District Court having jurisdiction over the area in which the Temple is situated;
5. (e) "Devaswom" means the Temple, and includes its properties and endowments and the subordinate temples attached thereto;
6. (f) "Hindu" means a person who is a believer in God and temple worship or any person Hindu by religion or in any sect;
7. (g) "Person having interest in the Temple" means a person who is entitled to perform worship or to do service in the temple or who is in the habit of performance of worship or service in the temple or entitled to partake, or is in the habit of partaking, in the benefit of the distribution of temple favours thereat;
8. (h) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
   • (i) "Temple" means the Koodalmanickam Temple at Irrinjalakuda;
9. (j) the expressions "Scheduled Caste" and "Scheduled Tribe" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Constitution of India.