Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Act may be called the Orissa State-Aid to Industries Act, 1978.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Orissa.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint in that behalf.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) "Board" means the Board of industries constituted under section 3 ;
2. (b) "Co-operative society" means a co-operative society registered or deemed to be registered under the Orissa Co-operative Societies Act, 1962;
3. (c) "cottage industry" means any industrial business or enterprise carried on in any premises to which the Factories Act, 1948 does not apply and includes any industry carried on by a co-operative society or an individual himself or with the help of members of his family and labourers and includes agriculture, sericulture, horticulture, dairy farming, poultry farming, bee keeping and lac rearing;
4. (d) "District Industries Officer" means any person appointed by the State Government to discharge the functions of a District Industries Officer under this Act;
5. (e) "Director" means the Director of Industries and includes any person appointed by the State Government to discharge the functions of the Director under this Act;
6. (f) "industry" means any industrial business or enterprise including one connected with Agriculture, conducted and undertaken by an individual or by a Co-operative Society or by a Company, association or Body of individuals, whether incorporated or not and includes a marketing society established under the Orissa Co-operative Societies Act, 1962;
7. (g) "machinery" includes plant, apparatus, tools, appliance and other mechanical equipment required for the purposes of carrying on any industrial operation or process;
8. (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;
   • (i) "Small scale industry" means an industry the capital outlay of which, at its inception, on plant and machinery does not exceed-

1. (1) fifteen lakhs of rupees in the case of an industry which is ancillary to another industry not being a cottage or village industry ;
2. (2) ten lakhs of rupees in the case of any other industry, or such other sum as the State Government may, from time to time determine;
   • (j) "village industry" means any industry which forms the normal occupation, whether whole-time or part time, of any class of the rural population of the State.