Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) 'Advisory Committee' means the Committee constituted under section 3 ; (b) 'crushing season' means the period beginning on the 1st November in any year and ending on the 30th June next following : Provided that the Government may, either generally or in respect of any particular factory, by notification, extend the period aforesaid beyond the 30th June ; (c) 'factory' means any premises, including the precincts thereof, wherein ten or more workers are working or were working on any day of the preceding twelve months and in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar by means of vacuum pans is being carried on or is ordinarily carried on with the aid of power ; (d) 'Government' means the State Government; (e) 'Inspector' means a person appointed to be an Inspector under section 5 ; (f) 'notification' means a notification in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette ; (g) 'occupier of a factory' includes the managing agent or any other person responsible for the management of the factory; (gg) 'planting season' means, in relation to any area, such period or periods as may from time to time be notified by the Government in respect of such area; (h) 'Sugarcane Commissioner' means the officer appointed to be Sugarcane Commissioner under section 4.