(!) This Act may be called the Kerala (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1996.
{2) It ~xtends to the whole of the State of K~rala.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Ga"Zette, appoint.
, 2. Definitwnf.-ln this Act, unless the context othet"wise requires,- ~ , (a) 'appointment in pubhc service' means appomtment to a set vice for post under the State or Central Government and mcludes appointment to any post of the State or Central Goverrunent undertakings;
*Received the assent of the President on the 24th day of September, 1996 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordina1 y No. 1151 dated Ist October, 1996.
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(b) 'appointing authority' in relatiOn to a se1 vice or post means the au.thority empowcrea to make appomtment to such service or post, and include appointing authonties in respect of the se;-vJces and posts m connection with the affairs of the Central Gov~rrunent and of the State and Central Goverrunent undcrtakmgs;
(·c) 'Community Certificate' means the ce,·tifica tc issued by the competent authority m the p1escribed form ind1oting the1ein the Schcdu'led Caste or the Schedo!ed Tribe, as the case may be,_ to which a person belongs;
(d) 'Competent .\uthonty' means any officet o, authority authori~ed by the Gove1 nm1 ·1t by notlf1c.ttion to pe1 fofJ11 the functions o[ t1te competent authority under t lm Act, for such ·ll eas or fm ~uch pu1 pose~ as may be specified in the nottficatioJJ;
(e) 'Co-operative lnstitut10n' means a Co-operative Society of Society rcgi~te1ed or deemed to be Iegistercrl. undc1 the Kcrala Co-operative Societtes Act, 1969 (21 of 1969);
(f) 'EducatiOnal Institution' means any School, College. Polytcchmc, Industrial Trauung Centre, Indu~tnal T,·ammg Institute, College of Fine Arts, College of l\lusic, Engmcetmg College, Mcdtcal College, Ay.11 veda College, Ho.:noeopathy College, Dental College, College of Nu, smg, Nurses Trainmg School, Health Vis1tm sTraining School, Colleges under the contl ol of the Kerala Agncultural University and various Colleges or mstitutions under the cont. ol of any Umvcrsity established by an Act of the State Legisla ture and an·/ other institution 1mparting education as may be specified by the Government by notification in the Gazette, from time to time; .
(g) 'Expert Agt>ncy' 1l'eans an officer, or team of officer~ belonging to the Anthropological Wmg of the Scherlulcd Castes and Scheduled Tnbes Development Department of the State Government, ent1 usted with the research, traming and developmental stnd1es of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tnbes and also incluctes the Dil ector of that Dep:1rtment, If he belongs to the Anthropology Wmg of the Depa1 tment or IS an Ant uopolo gist or Socwlog:st;
(h) 'Government' means the G(.verrunent of Kerala;
(i) 'Local authority' n.cans a local duthority as defined m the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, !994 (13 of 1994) o: the Kerala Munictpa!iues Acl, 1994 (20 of !994) as t>1C case may be;
(j) 'NotificatiOn' meam a notificatiOn published m the Gazette and the , { ' ' j word 'notified' ~hall be comtrued accordingly;
-----.J/ I).J 0 II 7 (1<) 'Prcs<:llb~d' mct~.ns prescrthcd by r,_.\,.s made under this Act (I) 'ScheJulcd Castes' and 'Scheduled TI ibes' shall have the meanings respectwcly assigned to them m clause (24) and clause (25) of Article 366 of the ConstitutiOn of India, (•n) 'Sc1cemng Co'nmittce' means a conunittee ment10ned m ~cction 6 ,,
(n) 'Scrutiny Comnuttee' means the committee constituted by the Government by notificatiOn under section 8 to pet form the functions of the Sc.-utmy Committee undei this Act for such area~ or for such purposes as may be specified in the notification;
( o) 'Special Court' means a CoUJ t of Ses~10n specified as a special cow t undei section 2 I ,
(p) 'Special Public P1 osecutor' means a Pub he Prosecutor ~pecified by the Gove.nmt:.nt as a Spe('lal Pubhc Prosecutm or an advocate, by notifi catiOn, undei sectiOn 22.