(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Delhi appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(b) "agricultural produce" means such produce (whether processed or not) of agriculture, horticulture, forest, animal husbandry, apiculture or pisciculture as are specified in the Schedule;
(c) "agriculturist" means a person who ordinarily by his own labour or by the labour of any member of his family or who by the labour of his tenants or by servants or hired labour or otherwise is engaged in the production or growth of agricultural produce which has not been processed, but does not include a trader, commission agent, processor or broker, in or in relation to, agricultural produce except where such trader, commission agent, processor or broker is also engaged in the production or growth of agricultural produce;
(d) "Board" means the Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board constituted under section 5;
(e) "broker" means an agent who, in consideration of a commission, fee or remuneration, contrives, makes and concludes a bargain, or contracts on behalf of his principal, for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce, but does not receive, deliver, transport, or pay for the purchase or collect payment for the sale of, the agricultural produce;
(f) "bye-laws'" means bye-laws made under section 65;
(g) "commission agent" means a person, who, by himself or through his servants, buys and sells agricultural produce for another person, keeps it in his custody and controls it during the process of its sale or purchase, and collects payment from the buyer and pays it to the seller, and receives by way of remuneration a commission or percentage upon the amount involved in each transaction;
(h) ''Director" means a person appointed as the Director of Agricultural Marketing for the Union Territory of Delhi;
(i) "local authority" means, in relation to an area within the local limits of,-
(i) the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, that Corporation;
(ii) the New Delhi Municipal Committee, that Committee;
(iii) the Delhi Cantonment Board, that Board;
(j) "market" means any principal market established under this Act and includes a subsidiary market;
(k) "market area" means an area declared to be a market area under section 4;
(l) "Market Committee" means a committee constituted for a market are under section 8;
(m) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(n) "Official Gazette" means the Delhi Gazette;
(o) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(p) "processor" means a person who processes any agricultural produce on payment of a charge;
(q) "retail sale" in relation to any agricultural produce, means the sale of that produce, not exceeding such quantity, as the Market Committee may, by, bye-laws, determine to be a retail sale;
(r) "Schedule" means the Schedule to this Act;
(s) "Secretary" means a Secretary of a Market Committee, and includes a Joint, Deputy or Assistant Secretary;
(t) "Surveyor" means a person who, on arrival of a consignment of agricultural produce for sale in any market area or market, surveys it for ascertaining the quality., refraction, adulteration and other like factors;
(u) "trader" means a person who buys or sells agricultural produce as a principal or as duly authorised agent of one or more persons.
(2) If any question arises as to whether a person is or is not an agriculturist for the purposes of this Act, the matter shall be referred to the Director who shall decide the same.