Definitions.

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

1. (a) “Competent Authority” means competent authority appointed under section 3 ;
2. (b) “Fruit Nursery” means any place where fruit plants are in the regular course of business propagated and sold for transplantation, but does not include a fruit nursery belonging to or managed by the Government ;
3. (c) “Fruit Plant” means any plant which can produce edible fruits or nuts and includes budwood, seedlings, grafts, layers, seed bulbs, suckers, rhizomes and cuttings of any such plant ; 3[(cc) “Government” means the Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] ; Kashmir”. 2. Enforced vide SRO-339 dated 27th October, 1988.
   • • Now Official Gazette. 3. Clause (cc) inserted by S.O. 1229 (E) dated 31.03.2020. 198FRUIT NURSERIES (LICENSING) ACT, 1987
4. (d) “Owner” in relation to a fruit nursery, means the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of such fruit nursery and where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the fruit nursery ;
5. (e) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;
6. (f) “Root Stock” means a fruit plant or part thereof on which any portion of a fruit plant has been grafted or budded ;
7. (g) “Scion” means a portion of a fruit plant which is grafted or budded on to a rootstock.

¹ Substituted by S.O. 1229 (E) dated 31.03.2020 for “whole of the State of Jammu and