Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) "area" means any area in which the provisions of this Act are in force for the time being; (b) "Director" means the Director of Industries and Commerce, Tamil Nadu, or such officer as the Government may nominate as Director for all or any of the purposes of this Act; (c) "Government" means the State Government as defined in section 3, clause (33-a), of the General Clauses Act, 1897; (d) "notification" means a notification published in the Fort St. George Gazette; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) "seed" means seed cocoons, moths, eggs and silkworms in the first two stages of development; (g) "seed area" means an area notified by the Government as an area reserved for the purpose of raising seed cocoons; (h) "seed cocoon" means cocoon raised from silkworm rearings and intended for reproductive purposes; (i) "seed producer" means any person engaged in all or any of the processes connected with the manufacture or disposal of seeds; (j) "seed rearer" means any person engaged in the occupation of rearing silkworms of any species with a view to the sale of cocoons, moths, eggs or worms for the purposes of seed, including operations extending from the incubation of eggs to the harvesting of cocoons; (k) "Sericultural Expert" means the officer who is the Head of the Sericultural Section of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Tamil Nadu; (l) "silkworm disease" means the disease of pebrine, flacherie, grasserie, or muscardine or any other prescribed disease; (m) "silkworm rearer" means any person engaged in the occupation of rearing silkworms of any species, with a view to the sale of cocoons, moths, eggs or worms.