Keyword(s):
Identity Card, Contribution, Director of Lotteries, District Lottery Officer,
District Welfare Officer of Lottery, Family, Fund, Lottery Agent, Lottery Seller

THE KERALA STATE LOTTERY AGENTS’ AND SELLERS’
WELFARE FUND ACT, 2008
An Act to provide for the constitution of a Fund for promoting the welfare of and to
grant relief to the Paper Lottery Agents and to the Paper Lottery Sellers of the
Government of Kerala in the State of Kerala and for other matters connected therewith
or incidental thereto.
Preamble.- WHEREAS, it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a Fund for
promoting the welfare of and to grant relief to the Paper Lottery Agents and to the Paper
Lottery Sellers of the Government of Kerala in the State of Kerala and other matters
connected therewith or incidental thereto;
BE it enacted in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1)This Act may be called the Kerala State
Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund Act, 2008;
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 12th day of July, 2008.
2. Definitions.- In this Act unless the context otherwise requires. –
(a) “Board” means the Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund
Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 6;
(b) ‘Identity Card’ means the Identity Card issued to the lottery agents/sellers
from the Board;
(c ) ‘Chief Executive Officer’ means the Chief Executive Officer under sub-
section (5) of section 6;
(d) ‘Contribution’ means the amount payable to the Fund under sub-sections
(1) and (3) of section 4;
(e) ‘Director of Lotteries’ means the Director of the Kerala State Lotteries
Department;
(f) District Lottery Officer’ means the District Lottery Officer of the Kerala
State Lotteries Department for the concerned Revenue District;
(g) ‘District Welfare Officer of Lottery’ means the officer being appointed under
section 11and officially designated for the District level administration of the Scheme; (h) ‘Family’ means, Wife or husband, minor sons and unmarried daughters of a
lottery agent/seller and includes his father, mother, mentally or physically disabled
children who are dependent on the lottery agent/seller and in the absence of such
dependants, major son and married daughter;
(i) ‘Fund’ means the Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund
established under section 3;
(j) ‘Government’ means the Government of Kerala;
(k) ‘Lottery Agent’ means an individual to whom an agency has been issued by
the District Lottery Officer in the State of Kerala for sale of the paper lottery of the
Government of Kerala and is holding a valid identity card issued under the Scheme and
does not include a company, a firm, an association of individuals or a co-operative
society;
(l) ‘Lottery Seller’ means, a person who sells paper lottery tickets of the
Government of Kerala;
(m) ‘Member’ means a lottery agent or lottery seller enrolled as a member in
the Fund and is holding a pass book issued under the Scheme;
(n) ‘Notification’ means a notification published in the Kerala Gazette;
(o) ‘Paper Lottery’ means any lottery other than on-line lottery, conducted by
the Government of Kerala in accordance with the provisions of the Lotteries (Regulation)
Act, 1998 (Central Act, 17 of 1998);
(p) ‘Prescribed’ means prescribed by the Rules made under this Act;
(q) ‘Scheme’ means the Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund
Scheme framed under section 3;
(r) ‘Specified’ means specified in the Scheme;
(s) ‘State Welfare Officer of Lottery’ means the officer appointed under section
11 to assist the Chief Executive Officer;
(t) ‘Year’ means the financial year;
3. The Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund Scheme.- (1) As
soon as after the commencement of this Act, the Government shall, by notification in the
Gazette, frame a Scheme to be called the “the Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’
Welfare Fund Scheme” and after the framing of the Scheme, constitute a Fund to be called the “Kerala State Lottery Agents’ and Sellers’ Welfare Fund” in accordance with
the provisions of this Act and the Scheme;

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