Section Text
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.--
(a) "Collector" means the officer appointed1by Central Government to perform in any specified area the duties of a Collector under the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, and includes any officer subordinate to that officer whom he may, by order in writing, authorise to perform his duties under those provisions;
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3[(c) "customs airport", "customs port" and "customs station" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Customs Act, 1962;]
(d) "Indian Council of Agricultural Research" means the body registered in that name under the Societies Registration Act, 1860;
(e) "lac" includes any form of manufactured or unmanufactured lac other than refuse lac;
(f) "managing agent" has the meaning assigned to it in the Companies Act, 1956;
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(j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(k) "produce" means any goods specified in the First Schedule2[x x x]
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1. For such appointments see G.S.R. 884,
2. Clauses (b), (g) and (h) omilted by Cotton, Copra and Vegetable Oils Cases (Abolition) Act (4 of 1987), Section 2 w.e.f. 21-3-81.
3. Substituted for former Clause (c) and deemed to have always been so by the Produce Cases (Amendment) Act. 1966 (49 of 1966), Section 2.
4. Clause (i) omitted by Act 30 or 1983. Prior to omission, Clause (i) was as under--.
"(i) oil-seed" does not include copra".