Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "Competent Authority" means a 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, seeds, bulbs, suckers, rhizomes and cuttings of any such plant ;
4. (d) "owner", in relation to a fruit nursery, means the person who, or the authority which, 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) "rootstock" 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.