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Bom LXV III of 1953. H-2065—2 6 Gujarat Prohibition Act., 1949 [1949 : Bom. XXV (39) “regulations” means regulations made under this Act ; 1[(39A) “ rotten gur” means the article known as gur, gul, jaggery, palmyra jaggery or rab and other intermediary product prepared by boiling or processing juice pressed out of sugar cane or extracted from palmyra palm, date palm ,sago palm, barb palm or coconut palm with or without admixture of molasse and which is in a liquid form or a semi-liquid or viscous form and which has a dark brown or a black colour or which, inspite of being in a solid liquid, semi-liquid or viscous form, is unfi t for human consumption owing to its becoming fi lthy, putrid, disgusting or decomposed 2 [“and shall include on chemical analysis, if it contains- (i) total sugar (expressed as invert sugar) less than 90 per cent. and sucrose less than 60 per cent., or (ii) extraneous matter insoluble in water more than 2 per cent., or (iii) total ash more than 6 per cent., or (iv) ash insoluble in by hydrochloric acid (HCL) more than 0.5 per cent., or (v) more than 10 per cent. of moisture, or (vi) sulphur dioxide in concentration exceeding 70 parts per million ;] (40) “rules” means rules made under this Act; (41) “sell” with its grammatical variations includes— (a) any transfer whether such transfer is for any consideration or not, (b) any supply or distribution for mutual accommodation, and (c) any supply by a club to its members on payment of price or of any fees or subscription, but does not include selling of opium for export across the customs frontier 3[ * * * * ]; The word “buy” with its grammatical variations shall be construed accordingly ; 4[ * * * * * ] (43) “spirit” means any liquor containing alcohol and obtained by distillation (whether it is denatured or not) ; (44) “sweet toddy or nira or neera” means unfermented juice drawn from a cocoa- nut, brab, date or any kind of palm tree into receptacles treated in the prescribed manner so as to prevent fermentation; 5[(45) “territorial waters” with referenee to the State, means any part of the open sea within a distance of twelve nautical miles from the nearest point of the appropriate base line or such other distance as may be fi xed by or under any law made by Parliament ; ] (46) “toddy” means fermented or unfermented juice drawn from a cocoanut, brab, date or any kind of palm tree and includes sweet toddy or nira or neera; (47) “to tap” means to prepare any part of a tree, or to use any means, for the pur- pose of causing juice to exude from the tree;