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Words “and the Vice-Chairman” added by Act No. 28 of 1979, effective from 20th September, 1979, omitted vide H.P. Act No. 8 of 1984 and again inserted vide H.P. Act No. 7 of 1987 effective from 12th February, 1987. 6 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, 1979 (i) ‘marketing’ means all activities relating to the transport, grading, pooling, marketing and sale of agricultural or industrial produce, whether in the primary form or in semi- processed or processed form; (j) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under the Act; (k) ‘processing’ means all activities relating to the processing of agricultural produce so as to make it marketable or fit for consumption and includes purchase and storage of raw- material, purchase of equipment, and purchase, installation and running of machinery, required for processing and storage of finished produce; 1[(kk) ‘schedule’ means the schedule appended to this Act;] (l) ‘schedule castes’ means such castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within such castes, races or tribes as are deemed under article 341 of the Constitution of India to be scheduled castes; 2[(m) ‘scheduled castes organization’ or ‘scheduled tribes organisation’ means a firm registered under the Partnership Act, 1932 (9 of 1932), an association registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860), or a co- operative society registered under the Himachal Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1968 (3 of 1969) in which not less than fifty-one percent of the paid up capital is held by the members of the scheduled castes, or as the case may be by the members of the scheduled tribes;]; and 3[(mm) ‘scheduled tribes’ shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in Clause (25) of Article 366 of the Constitution of India.] (n) ‘small scale industry’ means such cottage and small scale industry as may by notification in the Official Gazette be specified by the State Government; and (o) ‘supply and storage’ means supply and storage of agricultural inputs and establishment, maintenance and running of storages, cold-storages and warehouses. 1 . Clause (kk) inserted vide H.P. Act No. 8 of 1984.