Definitions.

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "cotton" means Indian raw cotton and includes seed cotton: lint and fly; (b) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture, Madhya Pradesh and includes any officer appointed by the State Government to perform any of the functions of the Director under this Act. (c) "owner" means the owner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory and includes the managing agent or other principal officer of such factory; (d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (e) "trader" means a person, other than an owner carrying on the business of buying or selling cotton for the purposes of gain or profit and includes- (i) a manufacturer, or (ii) an importer who carries on such business, or (iii) a broker or commission agent who contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on their behalf, or (iv) any other person who holds the prescribed quantity of cotton; (f) "year" means a year commencing on the 1st day of September; (g) the expressions "cotton ginning factory" and "cotton pressing factory" have respectively the meanings assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 (XII of 1925).