Section Text
1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Board*' means the Coconut Development Board established under Section 4 of the Coconut Development Board Act, 1979 -;
(b) "Collector" means the officer appointed by the Central Government to perform in any specified area the duties of a Collector under the provision^ of this Act and the rules made, thereunder, and includes any office subordinate to that officer whom he may, by order in writing, authorise to perform his duties under those provisions;
(c) "Copra" means the dry kernel of coconut and includes edible copra. and deslccated coconut ;
(d) "nill" means any premises in which or in any part of which, copra is crushed, or is ordinarily crushed, with the aid of power for the extraction of oil or is otherwise processed with the aid of power.
Explanation-"Power" means electrical energy or any other form of energy, which is mechanically transmitted and is not generated by human or animal agency;
(e) "occupier", in relation to any mill, means the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of the mill or the owner of the mill in case he is not the occupier;
(f) "oil" means oil extracted from copra;
(g) "proscribed'' means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
(2) All other words and expressions used in this Act and not defined, but defined in the Coconut Development Board Act, 1979 -, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.