Rubber Act,1947
Act No : 24
Section :
Definitions.
3. Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) "Board" means the 6* 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 in- cludes the representative or agent of a dealer; (c) "estate" means any area administered as one unit which contains land planted with rubber plants; (d) "export" and "import" mean respectively taking out of, and bringing into, 7*[India] by sea, land or air; 8*[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; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Act comes into force in Pondicherry on 1.10.1963 vide Reg. 7 of 1963, s. 3 and Sch. I. Extended to, and brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Havoli (w.e.f. 1.7.65) by Reg. 6 of 1963, s.2 & Sch.I. 1. Subs. by Act 54 of 1954, s. 2, for "under central control". 2. Certain words omitted by s. 2, ibid. 3. The brackets and words "(Prodution and Marketing)" omitted by s. 3, ibid. 4. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "except Part B States". 5. Subs. by Act 54 of 1954, s. 4, for the former section. 6. The word "Indian" omitted by s. 5, ibid. 7. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch., for "the States". 8. Ins. by s. 3 and Sch., ibid. 52 (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 to 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, but does not include rubber contained in any manufactured article; (i) "rubber plant" includes plants, trees, shrubs or vines of any of the following:-- (i) Hevea Braziliensis (Para Rubber), (ii) Manihot Glaziovii (Ceara Rubber), (iii) Castilloa elastica, (iv) Ficus elastica (Rambong), and (v) any other plant which the Board may, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare to be a rubber plant for the purposes of this Act; (j) "Rubber Production Commissioner" means the Rubber Production Commissioner appointed under this Act; 1*[(k) "small grower" means an owner whose estate does not exceed fifty acres in area.]
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