Sugar (Regulation of Production) Act : DEFINITIONS Indian Bare Acts :

Sugar (Regulation of Production) Act,1961

Act No : 55

Section : DEFINITIONS

SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS

- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Central Excises Act" means the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944-;

(b) "factory" means any premises (including the precincts thereof), where- in or in any part of which sugar is being manufactured by the vacuum pan process, or, wherein or in any part of which, any -manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar by the vacuum pan process is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on;

(c) "owner" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Sugar Export Promotion Act, 1958-;

(d) "permissible quota" means the quota referred to in section 3;

(e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(f) "sugar" means any form of sugar, whether wholly or partially manufactured, but does not include-

(i) "khandsari sugar", that is to say, sugar in the manufacture of which neither a vacuum pan nor a vacuum evaporator is employed; or

(ii) "palmyra sugar", that is to say, sugar manufactured from jaggery obtained by boiling 'the juice of the palmyra palm;

(g) "year" means the year beginning on the first day of November and ending on the thirty-first day of October in the following year.