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Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “Adjudicating Officer” means the officer authorised by the Government under sub-section (1) of section 26 of this Act; (b) “Appellate Authority” means the District Collector having jurisdiction over the district concerned; (c) “auction commission” means the amount or fish realised from fish sellers as service charge for the auction conducted or for providing facilities for conducting auction; (d) “auctioneer” means the person who has obtained a valid licence for fish auctioning under section 5; * Received the assent of the Governor on the 13th day of November, 2021 and published in the Kerala Extra ordinary Gazette No. 3380 dated 15th November ,2021. 2 (e) “Authorised Officer” means an officer of the rank of Assistant Director in the Fisheries Department having jurisdiction over that area, authorised by the Government by notification, for exercising the powers and for performing the duties assigned under this Act; (f) “chilled storage” means the facility to store fish chilled at low temperature on commercial basis; (g) “transportation facility” means mechanised vehicle used for the distribution of fish through road, on commercial basis; (h) “fish” means all aquatic animals which are edible and having economic and commercial value; (i) “fishing” means catching, collecting, attracting or chasing fish by adopting any means; (j) “Fish Landing Centre Management Society” means the society constituted under section 7 of this Act for the management and maintenance of a landing centre ; (k) “Fish Market Management Society” means the society constituted under section 11 of this Act for the management and maintenance of a market; (l) “fisherman” means a person engaged mainly in fishing for livelihood; (m) “Government’ means the Government of Kerala; (n) “harbour” means the place with necessary infrastructure for landing fishing vessels and for unloading and handling fish safely and hygienically; (o) “Harbour Management Society” means the society constituted under section 9 of this Act for the management and maintenance of a fishing harbour ; (p) “ice plant” means the establishment producing ice industrially/ commercially for keeping fish without being spoiled; (q) “landing centre” means the place notified under section 3 of this Act, where fish can be brought directly from the sea to the shore ; 3 (r) “market” means the place notified under section 3 of this Act where marketing or transferring of fish is carried out for domestic consumption or exporting other than landing centre, harbour, shop room, booth and fish farm ; (s) “notification” means a notification published in the official gazette; (t) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (u) “pre-processing” means beheading, separation of meat, removal of gills, removal of entrails, removal of scales etc of fish; (v) “pre-processing centre” means an establishment, place or premise set up for doing pre-processing of fish industrially / commercially; (w) “processing’ means canning, pickling, cooking, drying, marinading, freezing, drying by smoking or preparing fish for marketing in similar manner; (x) “processing centre” means an establishment, place or premise set up for processing fish commercially; (y) “State Level Fish Quality Maintenance Committee” means the Committee constituted as per section 16; (z) “user fee” means the fees realised from persons, institutions and vehicles towards the utilization or use of infrastructure arranged by the Government or Local Self Government Institutions in the landing centre, harbour or market; (za) “vessel” means a vehicle used for fishing or transporting fish by water.