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.In this Act, unless there is anything repugnami the subject or context,— n 220 COTTON (STATISTICS) 1948 : East Ph. Ac¢ X ‘Cotton’ means Indian raw cotton ingjy,: @ sfc::ed cotton, lint and fly ; ) ding ‘Director’ means the Director of Agricultu, ®)] [Union _territory of Chandigarh] and includ:’s every officer who for the time being Performg the duties of that office for the PUrposes of th, Act, and is notified accordingly in the offici] Gazette ; (3) ‘Indian Central Cotton Committee’ means the Indian Central Cottcn Committee constituted under Indian Cotton (Cess) Act, 1923 X1V of xm 1923) ; i (4) ‘Owner’ means the owner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory and includes . the managing agent or other principal officer of such factory ; (5) ‘prescribed date’ means the thirty-first day of August in each year ; (6) *[State]’ means the *[Union territory of Chandi garh] ; (7) ‘trader’ means the person carrying on the business of selling or purchasing cotton and includes a broker or 2 commission agent Who makes contracts for the sale or purchase © cotton for others and stocks cotton on their be- alf or any one holding stocks of cotton ; ) the expressions “cotton ginning factory’ antf .cotton pressing factory® shall have the meafi‘e O&s, Tespectively, cssigned to them by tHe i A . 9 otton Ginning ang i tories Ach 1 1925 (XIT of 1§25;1. Hpusing . Fac 1Substituted for the word garh) (Adaptation of Laws oq Stat Punjab” by the Punjab Reorganisation ( ¢ and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1968- “State of Punjab” by ipig. *Substituted for the Word “Proyjnce» 2Substituted for the words 1950- by the Adaptation of Laws Ordefs XLy 1860,0( 1948 : East Pb. Act XXIII.] corron (STATlsncs) 2