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(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— tlefutitions. (a) "agricultural produce" means any produce of agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, forestry or animal husbandry or any other produce specified in the Schedule to this Act: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, include any item of agricultural produce in the Schedule or exclude any such item from it; (b). "agriculturist" means a person who ordinarily by himself or by his tenant or hired labourer or otherwise, is engaged in the production and growth of agricultural produce but does not Short title, extent and commence- ment. 193 The West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1972. [West Ben. Act (Section 2.) include a trader or broker in agricultural produce notwithstanding that such trader or broker is also engaged in the production or growth of agricultural produce; (c) "broker" means an agent whose ordinary course of business is to negotiate and make contracts on payment of commission for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce on behalf of his principal, but does not include a servant of such principal engaged in negotiating or making such contracts; (d) "commission agent" means a person who buys and sells agricultural produce for any person, keeps it in his custody and controls it during the process of its sale or purchase, and collects payment therefor from the buyer and pays it to the seller, and receives by way of remuneration a commission or percentage upon the amount involved in each transaction; (e) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture, West Bengal and includes the Additional Director of Agriculture (Marketing), West Bengal and Joint Director of Agriculture (Marketing), West Bengal ; "local authority" means in any municipal area, the municipal authority by whatever name called and in the village, the Gram Panchayat; (g) "market" means a market established or declared as such under this Act for a market area and includes a market proper, a principal market yard, sub-market yard or yards, if any; (h) "market area" means any area declared to be a market area under section 3; (i) "market committee" means a committee constituted under section 5; (i) "marketproper" means any area within the market area including all lands and buildings thereon within such distance of the principal or sub-market yard as the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a market proper under section 4; (k) "measurer" means a person whose business is to measure a consignment of agricultural produce for sale; (1) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (m) "principal market yard" means any enclosure, building or locality within the market proper declared to be a principal market yard under section 4; 194 The West Bengal Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1972. XXXV of 1972.] (Section 2.) West Ben. Act XXIII