Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted by the Act No.25 of 1976, S.2. (h) 'crushing season' means the period beginning on the 15th November in any year and ending on the 30th April next following or any other period notified by the Cane Commissioner in consultation with the council in respect of any particular factory 1[or khandasari unit]; (i) 'factory' means any premises, including the precincts thereof, wherein twenty or more workers are working or were working on any day during the preceding twelve months and in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar by means of vaccum pans is being carried on with the aid of mechanical power; (j) 'factory zone' means an area assigned to a factory under section 15; (k) 'Government' means the State Government; 2 [(kk) ‘khandasari sugar’ means sugar produced by open-pan process in a khandasari unit from sugarcane juice, or from rab or gur or both, containing more than eighty per cent sucrose;] 3 [(kkk) ‘khandasari unit’ means a unit which is engaged or ordinarily engaged in the manufacture or production of khandasari sugar and which is capable of handling sugarcane juice produced with the aid of a crusher driven by any mechanical power; and includes such other unit engaged or ordinarily engaged in the manufacture or production of gur or rab;] (l) 'notification' means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette; (m) 'occupier of a factory' means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the factory, and where the said affairs are entrusted to a secretary, manager, managing director, operative director or managing agent, such secretary, manager, managing director, operative director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the occupier of the factory; 4[(mm) ‘owner of a khandasari unit’ means the person who, or the authority which, owns or has the ultimate control over the affairs of the khandasari unit and where the said affairs are entrusted to the Secretary, Manager or Managing Director, such Secretary, Manager or Managing Director shall be deemed to be the owner of the khandasari unit;] (n) ‘prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act.