Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Board" means the Kerala Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 9; (b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 12; (c) "Contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 7; (d) "employer" means any person who employs, directly or indirectly or whether on behalf of himself or for any other person, one or more tailoring workers to do any work in connection with the various processes in tailoring or embroidery work or a company, a firm an association of individuals or a Co-operative Society registered or deemed to be registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969); (e) "family" means,- (i) husband/wife of the tailoring worker or self-employed person, and their minor children; (ii) father and mother who are dependent on the tailoring worker or self employed person; (f) "Fund' means the Tailoring Workers' Welfare Fund established under section 3 and the Scheme; (g) "member" means a person registered in the welfare fund and who is paying contribution under section 7 to the Fund; (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) "schedule" means the Schedule to this Act; (j) "scheme" means scheme framed under this Act; (k) "self-employed person" means a person who engages himself in the processes of tailoring or embroidery work with or without the assistance of machine and depends mainly on tailoring work for his livelihood; (l) "tailoring worker" means any person who is employed for wages to do any work in connection with the various processes in tailoring work or embroidery work, with or without the assistance of machine, and who gets his wages directly or indirectly from the employer and includes any person employed by or through a contractor or through an agent and depends mainly on tailoring or embroidery work for his livelihood and any other person engaged in tailoring or embroidery work whom the Government may by notification in the Gazette, from time to time, declare to be a tailoring worker for the purposes of this Act; (m) "year" means the financial year