(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a)"Board" means the Karnataka State Motor Transport and Other Allied Worker’s Social Security and Welfare Board constituted under section 3;
(b)"Cess" means the cess levied and collected under the Karnataka Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1957 (Karnataka Act 35 of 1957) and includes such sums or percentage of cess reappropriated to the fund created under section 14;
(c) “Family” means wife or husband, minor sons and unmarried daughters of the registered motor transport and other allied worker and includes his father, mother and mentally retarded or http://nyaaya.in/law/1580/the-west-bengal-motor-transport-workers-welfare-cess-act-2010/#section-1 http://nyaaya.in/law/1580/the-west-bengal-motor-transport-workers-welfare-cess-act-2010/#section-2 physically challenged or widowed daughters who are solely dependent upon him;
(d) “Fund” means a motor transport and other allied workers social security fund created under section 14 of this Act;
(e) “Government” means Government of Karnataka;
(f) "Motor transport and other allied workers" means and includes,
(i)a person who is employed in a motor transport undertaking directly or through an agency, to work in a professional capacity on a motor vehicle or to attend to duties in connection with the arrival, departure, loading or unloading of such motor vehicle and includes a private transport vehicle driver, conductor, cleaner, supervisor, station staff, line checking staff, booking clerk, cash clerk, depot clerk, timekeeper, watchman or attendant;
(ii) a person working in motor garages, tyre retreading and resoling units, puncture repair shops, wheel balancing and alignment units, water washing units;
(iii) a person working in automobile body building units, tinkering, electrical and AC units;
-but does not include;-
(a) any such worker as defined under clause (l) of section 2 of the Factories Act,1948 (Central Act No 63 of 1948);
(b) any person employed in Government or Government Organization;
(c) who is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity;
(g)“Motor Transport Undertaking” means motor transport undertaking as defined under clause (g) of section 2 of the Motor Transport Workers Act , 1961(Central Act No. 27 of 1961);
(h)"Notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette under this Act;
(i) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(j)"Schedule" means the schedule appended to this Act; and
(k)"Scheme" means the scheme notified by the Government for the social security and welfare of the motor transport and other allied workers;
(2) All other words and expressions used in relation to motor vehicles but not defined in this Act, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Karnataka Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1957 (Karnataka Act 35 of 1957).