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Definitions.—In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Board" means the Anganawadi Workers and Anganawadi Helpers Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 10; (b) "contribution" means the amount payable to the Welfare Fund by the members of the Welfare Fund under sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 4 and by the Government under section 17; * Received the assent of the Governor on the 22nd day of March, 2016 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 676 dated 22nd March, 2016. 2 (c) "Anganawadi Worker" means a person who has been selected by a selection committee or promoted from Anganawadi Helper or has been appointed by transfer from Balawadi or such other institutions and is working in the Anganawadi on Honorarium basis or has been appointed permanently as worker as per the guidelines approved by the Government from time to time; (d) "Anganawadi Helper" means a person who has been selected by a selection committee or has been appointed by transfer from Balawadi or such other institution and is working in the Anganawadi on Honorarium or has been appointed permanently as a helper as per the guidelines approved by the Government from time to time; (e) "Fund" means the Kerala Anganawadi Workers' and Anganawadi Helpers' Welfare Fund constituted under section 3; (f) "Government" means the Government of Kerala; (g) "Member" means an Anganawadi Worker or Anganawadi Helper who has been enrolled as a member in the Welfare Fund or continuing as a member of the Workers Welfare Fund under the provisions of this Act; (h) "Dependents" means husband, minor children, unmarried or widowed or divorced daughters, mentally or physically disabled children or father or mother who are solely dependent on the member; (i) "Scheme" means the Kerala Anganawadi Workers' and Anganawadi Helpers' Welfare Fund Scheme framed under this Act; (j) "Workers' Welfare Fund" means Anganawadi Workers' Welfare Fund framed as per the Government Order issued under G. O. (P) No. 12/92/SWD, dated 10th April, 1992 of the Social Welfare Department; (k) "Notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (m) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer, appointed under section 15; (n) "Integrated Child Development Service Scheme" means a social security scheme implemented by the Central Government on 2nd October, 1975 for the health care and service of the children below the age of six years, pregnant women and breast feeding mothers; 3 (o) "Schedule" means the Schedule of this Act; (p) "Selection Committee" means a selection committee constituted by the Government for the selection of Anganawadi worker and Anganawadi helper.