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The Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963
Chapter I : Preliminary

2. Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(viii) "Dealer" means any person who carries on the business of buying, selling, supplying or distributing goods, executing works contract, transferring the right to use any goods or supplying by way of or as part of any service, any goods directly or otherwise, whether for cash or for deferred payment, or for commission, remuneration or other valuable consideration and includes:-

(b) a casual trader;

(c) a commission agent, a broker or a del credere agent or an auctioneer or any other mercantile agent, by whatever name called, who carries on the business of buying, selling, supplying or distributing goods executing works contract, transferring right to use any goods or supplying by way of or as part of any service, any goods on behalf of any principal;

(d) a non-resident dealer or an agent of a non-resident dealer, or a local branch of a firm or company or association or body of persons whether incorporated or not situated outside the State;

(e) a person who, whether in the course of business or not, sells;

(i) goods produced by him by manufacture, agriculture, horticulture or otherwise; or

(ii) trees which grow spontaneously and which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale;

(f) a person who whether in the course of business or not:-

(1) transfers any goods, including controlled goods, whether in pursuance of a contract or not, for cash or deferred payment or other valuable consideration;

(2) transfers property in goods (whether as goods or in some other form) involved in the execution of a works contract;

(3) delivers any goods on hire-purchase or any system of payment by installments;

(4) transfers the right to use any goods for any purpose (whether or not for a specified period) for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration;

(5) supplies, by way of or as part of any service or in any other manner whatsoever, goods, being food or any other articles for human consumption or any drink (whether or not intoxicating), where such supply or service is for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration;

Explanation- (1) A society including a co-operative society, club or firm or an association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not which whether or not in the course of business, buys, sells, supplies or distributes goods from or to its members for cash of for deferred payment, or for commission, remuneration or other valuable consideration, shall be deemed to be a dealer for the purposes of this Act;

Explanation- (2) The Central Government or a State Government, which whether or not in the course of business, buy, sell, supply or distribute goods, directly or otherwise, for cash or for deferred payment, or for commission, remuneration or other valuable consideration, shall be deemed to be a dealer for the purposes of this Act;

(g) a bank or a financing institution which, whether in the course of its business or not, sells any gold or other valuable article pledged with it to secure any loan, for the realisation of such loan amount;

Explanation I. Bank for the purposes of this clause includes a Nationalised Bank or a Scheduled Bank or a Co-operative Bank;

Explanation II. Financing Institution means a financing institution other than a bank: