Kerala Document Writers Scribes and Stamp Vendors Welfare Fund Act, 2012
No: 13 Dated: Jan, 10 2013
The Kerala Document Writers Scribes and Stamp Vendors Welfare Fund Act, 2012
(Act No. 7 of 2013)
An Act to provide for the constitution of a Welfare Fund for the welfare of the document writers, scribes and stamp vendors in the State of Kerala, to pay pension and other benefits to them and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Preamble. - Whereas, it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a Welfare Fund for the welfare of the document writers, scribes and stamp vendors in the State of Kerala, to pay pension and other benefits to them and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto;
Be it enacted in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Vendors' Welfare Fund Act, 2012.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 31st day of January, 2012.
2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) "Board" means the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Vendors' Welfare Fund Board constituted under section 9;
(b) "cessation of employment" means ceasing of employment of a licensee consequent to the cancellation or surrender of the licence obtained for doing the employment;
(c) "contribution" means the amount payable to the Welfare Fund by the members under sub-section (1) of section 4 and by the Government under sub-section (1) of section 26;
(d) "dependent" means wife or husband, minor sons, unmarried or widowed or divorced daughters, mentally or physically disabled children, father, mother who are solely dependent upon the member;
(e) "Document Writer" means a person having a licence who is engaged in the profession of preparing documents including 'enquiry as to title, preparation of draft deeds and engrossing the deed on stamp paper for registration as per the Kerala Document Writers' Licence Rules, 1960;
(f) "Fund" means the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Vendors' Welfare fund constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(g) "Government" means the Government of Kerala;
(h) "Inspector General of Registration" means the Inspector General of Registration of the Government of Kerala;
(i) "member" means a Document Writer or a Scribe or a Stamp Vendor, who has been admitted as a member of the Welfare fund under the provisions of this Act or who is continuing as a member of the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Vendors' Welfare fund Scheme, 1991;
(j) "notification" means a notification published in the Kerala Gazette;
(k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(l) "Registering Authority" means the District Registrar (General) of the district concerned;
(m) "Scheme" means the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Vendors' Welfare fund Scheme framed under this Act;
(n) "Scribe" means a person who assists a Document Writer in the preparation of documents and who possesses a valid scribe licence to transcribe the documents to be presented for registration as defined in sub-rule (5) of rule 3 of the Kerala Document Writers' Licence Rules , 1960;
(o) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Hoard constituted as per this Act;
(p) "stamp" means the Kerala Document Writers', Scribes' and Stamp Wendors' Welfare fund Stamp printed and distributed under section 24;
(q) "Stamp Vendor" means a person who has acquired a licence as per rule 35 of the Kerala Manufacture and Sale of Stamp Rules, 1960 and actively engaged in the profession of selling non-judicial stamps and stamp papers.