Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Commission" means the Commission constituted under section 5; (b) "Director" means the Director appointed under section 12; (c) "Government" means the Government of Kerala; (d) "member" means a member of the commission and includes the Chairperson; (e) "person" includes a firm, company, corporation, or any public undertaking, association of persons, or the Government and its agencies including agencies receiving aid from the Government; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) "public servant" means any employee of the Government or a local body or any corporation owned or controlled by the Government or of any Government agency or any public undertakings; (h) "registered" means registered with the commission under the Act; (i) "unfair practice" means any distinction, exclusion on restriction made on the basis of sex for the purpose of or which has the effect of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women of fundamental constitutional rights, or of human rights, or of fundamental freedom in the political, economic, social cultural, civil or any other field or the infringement of any rights or benefit conferred on women by or under the provisions of any law for the time being in force or the mental or physical torture of sexual excesses on women.