In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Board" means the Kerala Small Plantation Workers' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 6;
(b) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 9;
(c) "contribution" means the sum of money payable to the Fund in accordance with the provisions of section 5;
(d) "employer" in relation to a plantation, means the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the plantation, and where the affairs of any plantation are entrusted to any other person (whether known as a managing agent or manager or superintendent or by any other name) such other person shall be deemed as the employer in relation to that plantation;
(e) "family" means wife or husband, minor sons and unmarried daughters of a plantation worker and includes his father, mother and mentally retarded or physically handicapped or widowed children who are solely dependant upon him;
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 1st day of April,2008 and published in the Kerala Extraordinary Gazette No. 664 dated 1st April,2008.
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(f) "Fund" means the small Plantation Worker's Welfare Fund established under section 3;
(g) "member" means a member of the Fund;
(h) "plantation" means any land used or intended to be used for cultivating one or more than that of rubber, tea, coffee, cardamom, coco, oil palm or cashew;
(i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(j) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act;
(k) "Scheme" means a Scheme framed under sub section (1) of section 3;
(l) "small plantation" means a plantation having an extent less than five hectares and where one or more small plantation workers are employed, but shall not include a plantation as defined in the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (Central Act 69 of 1951);
(m) "small plantation worker" means a person engaged for doing any work in a small plantation for not less than ninety days in the preceding twelve months for wages or reward, whether directly or through any contractor or agent, of the owner or company or family or Trust or Society and includes any self-employed person working in his own small plantation having an extent not more than half hectare.
Explanation.—For the purpose of this Act, if any question arises as to whether a person is a small plantation worker or not that question shall be referred to the Board, or to an officer authorised by the Board in this behalf, and the decision of the Board/ his thereon shall be final;
(n) "year" means the financial year.