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In section 2 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Act, 1985 (30 of 1985), (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act),- (i) the existing clause (a) shall be relettered as clause (aa) and before clause (aa) as to relettered, the following clause shall be inserted, namely: - "(a) "allied worker" means any person who is engaged mainly in fishery related activities for his livelihood and who does not come under the definition of the term fisherman in clause (e) of section 2 of the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Societies Act, 1980 (7 of 1981) and includes beach workers, small scale fish distributors, fish curers, peeling workers and small scale processing plant workers, who are not members or not eligible to got membership, in any other Statutory Welfare Scheme;" (ii) existing clause (b) shall be relettered as clause (bb) and before clause (bb) as so relettered, the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- (b) "beach worker" means a person who is employed in fishing harbours or fish landing centres or fish landing sites to carry out activities such as,- (i) unloading of fish from fishing crafts to fish baskets; (ii) transportation of fish baskets to auction site or icing site; (iii) transportation of trash fish or small fish to curing site; (iv) sorting of fish at the landing site, unloading and crushing of ice, packing fish with ice in boxes and loading of packed boxes into vehicles used for transportation; (v) loading of fish directly from boats to lorries, sale of ice in the fishing harbours or fish landing centres; (vi) cleaning auction hall, fishing crafts and supplying water for fishing boats; and (viii) mending and repair of fishing nets"; (iii) for clause (d), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- "(d)" dealer" means any person who carries on, within the State of Kerala, the business of buying or selling or processing fish or exporting fish (in raw or in processed form) or fish products and includes,- (i) a commission agent, a broker or any other mercantile agent, by whatever name called; and (ii) a non-resident dealer or an agent of a non-resident dealer or a local branch of a firm or company or association situated outside the State of Kerala;" (iv) for clause (e), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:- "(e) "fish" means fish of all varieties including prawn, lobster, shellfish, clam, squids or any other aquatic organism exploited commercially for edible purposes or for manure; (ea) "fish curer" means a worker who is engaged in the activities connected with drying, salted dry curing and salted wet curing; (eb) "fish products" means fish in raw or in processed form;" (v) after clause (j), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:- (ja) "peeling worker" means a worker who is engaged in peeling prawn, lobster, clam, cleaning squids and cuttle fishes in huts, peeling sheds and fish processing plants; (jb) "processing" means any means of preservation of fish or fish products effected with or without physical or chemical changes by mechanical means or otherwise, intended to facilitate increase in the shelf life of fish or fish products or to avoid loss during transit or valve addition; (jc) "processing worker" means a worker who is engaged in cleaning, grading, processing and packing of fish or fish products; (jd) "sale proceeds" means the amount realised or is likely to be realised by sale of fish or fish products;" (vi) for clause (k), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- "(k) "Scheme" means the Kerala Fishermen's Welfare Fund Scheme or the Allied Workers' Welfare Scheme, framed under this Act;" (vii) after clause (k), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- "(ka) "small scale distributors" means, those persons engaged in the distribution of fish from fish landing centres or fish harbours or fish curing yards or markets through retail outlets or by house delivery and includes:- (i) auto-carrier distributors; (ii) cycle load vendors; (iii) drivers and cleaners engaged in fish transporting on a permanent basis; (iv) head load vendors, including vendors, who sell fish in temporary camps; (v) mini lorry distributors; and (vi) moped load distributors".