Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:—

(a) "Competent authority" means a person authorized by the Government, by notification in the Government Gazette, to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act;

(b) "Council" means the Handicrafts Quality Control Council constituted under section 3;

(c) "dealer" means a person carrying on the business of selling or buying of notified handicrafts in retail or wholesale;

(d) "Notified handicraft" means a handicraft article as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette notify;

(e) "Q. C. Mark" means an exclusive identifying quality control mark approved by the Government as representing the goods of a particular notified handicraft;

(f) "manufacturer" means a person who manufactures a notified handicraft or gets it artistically done up by hand either in his own 'Kharkhana' or establishment or through others under his instructions and/or/on contract basis;

(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act.