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Plant, has been defined as the tools, machinery, fixtures, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business; the apparatus or equipment for a certain mechanical operation or process, Steel City Beverages Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 Pat LJR 868.Plant, has frequently been used in fiscal and other legislation. It is one of a fairly large category of words as to which no statutory definition is provided ('trade', office even 'income' are others), so that it is left to the court to interpret them. It naturally happens that as case follows case, and one extension leads to another, the meaning of the word gradually diverges from its natural or dictionary meaning. This is certainly true for plant, I.R.C. v. Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd., (1982) 1 WLR 322: (1982) 2 All ER 230: 55 TC 252 (HL).Plant, in the relevant sense, although admitted not a term of art, and therefore part of the general English tongue, is not, in this sense, an ordinary word, but one of imprecise application, an...
Cock oven plant
Cock oven plant, 'Coke oven plant' means the plant and equipment with which the manufacture of hard coke has been or is being, carried on, and includes-(i) all lands, building, works, machinery and equipment, vehicles, railways, tramways and sidings, belonging to, or in the coke oven plant, (ii) all workshop belonging to the coke oven plant, including buildings, machinery, instruments, stores, equipment of such workshops and the lands on which such workshops stand, (iii) all coke in stock or under production, and other stores, stocks and instruments, belonging to the coke oven plant, (iv) all power stations belonging to the coke oven plant or operated for supplying electricity for the purpose of working the coke oven plant or a number of coke oven plants, (v) all lands, buildings and equipment belonging to the coke oven plant where the washing of coal is carried on, (vi) all other fixed assets, movable or immovable, and current assets belonging to a coke oven plant, whether within its ...
Banana plant
Banana plant, A banana plant is more in the nature of a seasonal crop lasting for one or one and a quarter years. Once the plant yield fruit, it becomes useless and does not yield any further fruit. Further, its stem is not 'woody' but 'fleshy' or 'herbacious'. A banana plant cannot be regarded as a fruit-tree, Mir Fakir Mohammed v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1978 SC 1072: (1978) 3 SCR 9: (1978) 2 SCC 36 (38). [West Bengal Estate Accuasation Act,1954 s. 2 (p)]...
Controlled crop or plants
Controlled crop or plants, grown for any purpose, of the types or varieties of plants which are protected by the order in that area, and such additional kind of crops or plants whether grown or self-sown and whether of those or any other types or varieties, as may be specified in the order for the purpose of this definition in that area, Plant Varieties and Seeds Act, 1964, s. 33(4) (ii) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 623, p. 364....
Duty to report defective plant
Duty to report defective plant, where a self-employed person or an employee discovers any defect in any plant which he is required to use in the course of dock operations which he cannot rectify, he must, without unreasonable delay, report that defect to the person in control of that plant, or in the case of an employee, to his employer or the person in control of the plant, Halsbury's Laws of England (20), para 795, p. 646...
Captive generating plant
Captive generating plant, means a power plant set up by any person to generate electricity primarily for his own use and includes a power plant set up by any co-operative society or association of persons for generating electricity primarily for use of members of such co-operative society or association. Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(8). A.P. Gas Power Corporation v. A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission, AIR 2006 AP 12....
Cardamon plant
Cardamon plant, means ELETTARIA CARD-AMOMUM MATON, AMMOMUM SUBULATUM ROXB and any other plant which the Board may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a cardamom plant for the purposes of this Act, [Spices Board Act, 1986 (10 of 1986), s. 2(c)]...
Dead plant
Dead plant, includes a reference to a plant which is frozen, dried or preserved by chemicals, or which, although for any reason not complete, is substantially complete and externally substantially resembles a complete dead plant of the kind concerned. Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act, 1976, s. 12(3) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 866, p. 514...
Electrical plant
Electrical plant, s. 2(22) 'electrical plant' means any plant, equipment, apparatus or appliance or any part thereof used for, or connected with, the generation, transmission, distribution or supply of electricity but does not include:-(a) an electric line; or(b) a meter used for ascertaining the quantity of electricity supplied to any premises; or(c) an electrical equipment, apparatus or appliance under the control of a consumer. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(22)]...
Plant material
Plant material, means any material used for pro-pagation and raising of fruit plants and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, suckers, roots, seeds and cuttings. [The Orissa Fruit Nurseries (Regula-tion) Act, 1997, s. 2(f)]Means the material used for propagation and raising of horticultural plant, and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, sucker, root seed, cutting, seedlings, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, grafts, goodies, other vegetatively propagated material of food crops including vegetables, fruits and flowers. [The West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001, s. 2(f)]...
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