Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- (1) "Director" means in relation to any area within the jurisdiction of a Municipal Corporation or any area comprised in a Municipality or Township, the Director appointed under clause (13) of section 3 of the Kerala Municipalities Act, (1960 Act 14 of 1961) and in relation to any Panchayat area the Director appointed under clause (7) of section 2 of the Kerala Panchayats Act, 1960 (Act 32 of 1960); (2) 'driving' includes drawing, pushing or propelling, and driver includes any person who drives, draws, pushes or propels any hackney carriage; (3) 'executive authority' means, in the case of Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council, the Commissioner of the Corporation or Council as the case may be; in the case of a Panchayat, the executive authority of the Panchayat: and in the case of a township, the executive officer of the Township Committee; (4) 'hackney carriage' means any wheeled vehicle drawn; pushed or propelled by a man, or drawn by horse, bullock or other animal and used for the conveyance of any person or goods and which stands or plies for hire by the hour or day or according to distance, and includes a rickshaw; (5) 'horse' includes mule or pony; (6) 'local authority' means- (a) in any City, the Corporation of that City; (b) in any Municipal area, the Municipal Council concerned; (c) in any Panchayat area, the Panchayat concerned; and (d) in any Township, the Township Committee concerned; (7) 'Magistrate' means any magistrate having local jurisdiction in any area to which this Act extends; (8) 'minor' means any person who has not completed the age of eighteen years; (9) 'registering authority' means the executive authority of the local authority concerned or any other person appointed by name or by virtue of his office, by the Government for registering hackney carriage within a particular area; (10) 'rickshaw' means a two-wheeled vehicle or a tin-cycle of special type drawn or propelled by a person and includes a cycle-rickshaw; (11) 'year of registration' means the year ending with the 31st day of March.