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Definitions:— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: "Board" means the Kerala Cashew Workers Relief and Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 7. "contribution" means the contribution payable by an employer or employee or the Govt. under the scheme. * "cashew factory' means a factory wherein processing of cashewnuts is being carried on and which is registered and licensed under the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948). "employer" means any- person who employs, whether directly or through another person or whether on behalf of himself or any other person, one or more employee or employees and includes any person who has a licence for the construction of extension of a cashew factory under the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act 63 of 1948) and the rules made thereunder. "employee" means any person who is employed in any cashew factory for wages for processing cashewnuts and who gets his wages directly or indirectly from the employer and includes. '(i) any person employed by or through a contractor cr-I through an agent in or in connection with the processing at cashewnuts ; and (ii) clerical and other staff employed in connection with the processing of cashewnuts: *lnser ted as per Kerala Cashew Worker's Relief and Welfare - Fund (Amendment) Act, 1987 as per Now. No. 18803/Leg, C3/87/ Law Dt. 28-1-88 Published in Kerala Gazette (E. 0.) No. 68 dt. 28-1-88. 0' 3 "Fund" means the Kerala Cashew Workers Relief and Welfare Fund established under the scheme; "member' means any employee who contributes to the Fund. 'Processing", with reference to cashewnuts, means loading, unloading, transporting, stacking, unstacking, soaking roasting shelling, frying, peeling, grading, tilling, packing or otherwise treating l ror adapting cashewnuts, with a view to their use delivery, sale '. or ather disposal, and includes work connected with the maintenance Of processed cashewnuts. - (i) "scheme ' means the scheme framed under this Act. (j) "State" means the State of Kerala; "wages" means all remuneration paid or payable to an employee for work done on services rendered by him and includes leave and holiday wages paid or payable to him under any law or agreement for the time being in force, but does not include overtime aRowance, bonus and commission