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a) "Board" means the 7[***] Rubber Board constituted under this Act;
(b) "dealer", means any person who deals in rubber, whether wholesale or retail or holds stocks of rubber, and includes the representative or agent of a dealer;
(c) "estate" means any area administered as one unit which contains land planted with rubber plants 8[(cc) "Executive Director", means the Executive Director appointed under this Act;]
(d) "export" and "import", mean respectively taking out of, and bringing into9[India] by sea, lane or air; 10[(dd) "India" means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;]
(e) "manufacturer" means any person engaged in the manufacture of any article in the making of which rubber is used;
(f) "owner" includes any agent of an owner and a mortgagee in possession and a lessee of an estate;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act (h) "rubber", means-
(i) crude rubber, that is to say, rubber prepared from the leaves, bark or latex of any rubber plant (ii) the latex of any rubber plant whether fluid or coagulated, in any stage of the treatment which it is subjected during the process of conversion into rubber (iii) latex (dry rubber content) in any state of concentration, and includes scrap rubber, sheet rubber, rubber in powder and all forms and varieties of crepe rubber, does not include rubber contained in any manufactured article;
(iv) "rubber plant" includes plants, trees, shrubs or vines of any of the follow (i) Hevea Braziliensis (Para Rubber (ii) maniaot Glaziovii (Ceara Rubber (iii) Castillio elastica, (iv) Ficus elastica (Rambong), (v) any other plant which the Board may, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare to rubber plant for the purpose of this Act;
(j) "Rubber Production Commissioner" means the Rubber Production Commissioner under this Act; 11[(k) "small grower", means an owner whose estate does not exceed fitly acres in area. ]