Definitions

(a) "Cane" means sugarcane intended for use in a factory; (b) "Cane-grower" means a person who cultivates cane either by himself or by members of his family or by hired labour and who is not a member of a Cane-growers' Co-operative Society, registered under such Co-operative Societies Act, as may be prescribed, and includes a group of such cane-growers and such societies, registered under such Co-operative Societies Act, as may be prescribed to act as a representative of such members; (c) "Council" means the Cane Development Council established under section 5; (d) "Factory" means any premises, including the precincts thereof, wherein twenty or more workers are working or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months and in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on with the aid of power or mechanized power; (e) "Member" means the company as defined in the Indian Companies Act, 1956 (I of 1956); (f) "Occupier of a factory" means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the factory, and where the said affairs are entrusted to a managing agent, such agent shall be deemed to be the occupier of the factory; (g) "Purchasing agent" means a person licensed under this Act to act as a purchasing agent; (h) "Reserved Area" means an area specified in an order issued under this Act. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) "assessment year" means the period of twelve months commencing on the first day of April; (b) "crusher" means a crusher as defined in the rules; (c) "factory" means any premises including the precincts thereof in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar by means of vacuum pans is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on; (d) "gur" means the product ordinarily known as gur, gul, jaggery, shakkar, gul shakkar, prepared by pan boiling or open pan boiling of sugarcane juice or rab; (e) "khandsari sugar" means sugar produced by open pan process; (f) "occupier of a factory" means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of a factory, and where the said affairs are entrusted to a managing agent, such agent shall be deemed to be the occupier of the factory; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "purchase" means a purchase of sugarcane for use in a factory or gur, rab or khandsari sugar manufacturing unit; (i) "rab" means massecuite prepared by concentrating sugarcane juice in open pans; (j) "State Government" means the Government of Chhattisgarh; (k) "sugarcane" means sugarcane intended for use in a factory or in a gur, rab or khandsari sugar manufacturing unit; (l) "cane grower" means a person who cultivates sugarcane either by himself or by hired labour or otherwise and who is not a member of a co-operative society; (m) "cane growers' co-operative society" means a society registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, for the time being in force, one of whose objects is to sell sugarcane grown by its members; (n) "cane commissioner" means an officer appointed by the State Government as Cane Commissioner and includes any officer empowered by the State Government to exercise all or any of the powers of the Cane Commissioner; (o) "price" means the price of sugarcane; (p) "sugar" means any form of sugar containing more than ninety per cent of sucrose;