Keyword(s):
Contribution, Chief Executive Officer, Employer, Family, Fund, Self-
Employed Person, Welfare, Tailor

An Act to provide for the constitution of a Fund to grant relief to, to promote the welfare
of, and to pay pension to tailoring workers and self-employed persons in tailoring work
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 tailoring, workers, and self-
employed persons in tailoring work in the State of Kerala and for certain other matters
incidental thereto;
BE it enacted in the Forty-fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Kerala
Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 1994.
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.
2. Definitions.-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Board” means the Kerala Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund Board constituted
under section 9;
(b) “Chief Executive Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer
appointed under sub-section (1) of section 12;
(c) “Contribution” means the sum of money payable to the Fund under section 7;
(d)“employer” means any person who employs, directly or indirectly or whether
on behalf of himself or for any other person, one or more tailoring workers to do any
work in connection with the various processes in tailoring or embroidery work or a
company, a firm an association of individuals or a Co-operative Society registered or
deemed to be registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (21 of 1969);
(e) “family” means,-
(i) husband/wife of the tailoring worker or
self-employed person, and their minor children; (ii) father and mother who are dependent on the tailoring worker or self
employed person;
(f)“Fund’ means the Tailoring Workers’ Welfare Fund established under section 3
and the Scheme;
(g) “member” means a person registered in the welfare
fund and who is paying contribution under section 7 to the Fund;
(h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(i) “schedule” means the Schedule to this Act;
(j) “scheme” means scheme framed under this Act;
(k) “self-employed person” means a person who engages himself in the processes
of tailoring or embroidery work with or without the assistance of machine and depends
mainly on tailoring work for his livelihood;
(l) “tailoring worker” means any person who is employed
for wages to do any work in connection with the various processes in tailoring work or
embroidery work, with or without the assistance of machine, and who gets his wages
directly or indirectly from the employer and includes any person employed by or through
a contractor or through an agent and depends mainly on tailoring or embroidery work for
his livelihood and any other person engaged in tailoring or embroidery work whom the
Government may by notification in the Gazette, from time to time, declare to be a
tailoring worker for the purposes of this Act;.

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