Keyword(s):
Chief Welfare Fund Inspector, Contribution, Employee, Employer, Family,
Fund, Self-Employed Wages, Welfare Fund Inspector
n Act to provide for the constitution of a fund to grant relief to, promote the welfare of,
and to pay pension to beedi and cigar workers and self-employed persons in beedi
and cigar industries in the State of Kerala.
Preamble.—WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a fund to
grant relief to, to promote the welfare of and to pay pension to beedi and cigar workers
and self-employed persons in beedi and cigar industries in the State of Kerala and matters
connected therewith or incidental thereto;
BE it enacted in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: —
- Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the
Kerala Beedi and Cigar Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1995.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in
the Gazette, appoint. - Definitions.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) ‘Board’ means the Kerala Beedi and Cigar Workers’ Welfare Fund Board
constituted under section 7;
(b) ‘Chief Welfare Fund Inspector’ means the Chief Welfare Fund Inspector
appointed under sub-section (1) of section 10;
(c ) ‘contribution’ means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 5;
(d) ’employee’ means a person employed directly or through any agency, whether
for wages or not, in any beedi or cigar establishment to do any work, skilled, unskilled,
manual or clerical and includes,—
(i) any person who is given raw materials by an employer or a contractor for
converting them into beedi or cigar at home;
(ii) any person not employed by an employer or a contractor but working with the
permission of, or under agreement with the employer or contractor; and (iii) any person employed by a petty shop owner for wages or not, for making beedi
or cigar;
(e) ‘employer’ means,—
(i) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer; and
(ii) in relation to any other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over
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the affairs of the establishment are entrusted, whether called the manager,
superintendent or by any other name;
(f) ‘family’ means,—
(i) husband, wife, minor sons, unmarried daughters; and
(ii) father and mother who are solely dependent on the beedi or cigar worker or
the self employed person;
(g) ‘Fund’ means the Kerala Beedi and Cigar Workers’ Welfare Fund established
under section 3 and the Scheme;
(h) ‘member’ means an employee or self-employed person registered in the
Scheme under section 4;
(i) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(j) ‘Schedule’ means the Schedule to this Act;
(k) ‘Scheme’ means the Scheme framed under this Act;
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