Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "agricultural produce" means any of the following classes of commodities, namely:-- (i) foodstuffs, including edible oil-seeds; (ii) cattle fodder, including oil-cakes and other concentrates; (iii) raw cotton, whether ginned or unginned, and cotton seed; (iv) raw jute; and (v) vegetable oils; (b) "appropriate Government" means in relation to the Board and the Central Warehousing Corporation, the Central Government, and in relation to a State Warehousing Corporation, the State Government; (c) "Board" means the National Co-operative Development and Warehousing Board established under Section 3; (d) "Central Warehousing Corporation" means the Central Warehousing Corporation established under Section 17; (e) "Co-operative Society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912 (Act 2 of 1912) or under any other law for the time being in force in any State relating to co-operative societies which is engaged in any of the activities specified in sub-section (1) of Section 9 and includes a co-operative land mortgage Bank; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) "recognised association" means an association which is for the time being recognised by the Central Government under Section 6 of the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952 (Act 74 of 1952); (h) "Reserve Bank" means the Reserve Bank of India constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (Act 2 of 1934); (i) "scheduled bank" means a bank for the time being included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (Act 2 of 1934); (j) "State Bank" means the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (Act 23 of 1955); (k) "State Warehousing Corporation" means a Warehousing Corporation for a State established under Section 28; (l) "Warehousing Corporation" means a Warehousing Corporation established under this Act; and (m) "year" means the financial year.