Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (a) "Calcutta" means Calcutta as defined in clause (11) of section 3 of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923; (b) "the Collector" means, in relation to Calcutta, the Collector of Stamp Revenue and in relation to any other local area, the Collector of the district within which the local area is comprised; (c) "the Commissioner" in relation to the Collector means the Divisional Commissioner to whom the Collector is subordinate; (d) "cotton" means loose raw cotton; (e) "Director" means the Director of Fire Services appointed by the State Government; CO "the fire brigade" means the fire brigade maintained by the State Government under section 3; (g) "fire-fighting appliances" mean fire-engines, fire- escapes, accoutrements, equipments, tools, implements and things whatsoever used for fire- fighting and include motor cars, motor cycles, trailers and other means of transport; (h) "jute" means raw jute, either loose or in drums, and loose jute cuttings and rejections; (i) "Magistrate" means a Presidency Magistrate or Magistrate of the First Class; Short title, extent and commence- ment. Defini- tions. 2 The West Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950. [West Ben. Act (Chapter 11.—Fire Brigade.—Sections 3, 4.) (j) "person" includes an undivided Hindu family, and • a firm or company or association of individuals whether incorporated or not; (k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act; ,s:731/) "warehouse" means any building or place used whether temporarily or permanently for the storing or pressing. or keeping of jute, gunny bags, cotton, hemp, resin, shellac, varnish, bitumen, ,i-caysvN,N. ',pitch, tar, tallow, celluloid, wood (excluding furniture kept in the building or place for 34)11'llr''"'• ordinary use), charcoal, coal, straw, hay, '1°J Ulugrass, golpata, hogla, derma, raw rattan canes, cocoanut fibre, waste paper, packinc, boxes, inflammable chemicals or any other article which in the opinion of the State Government is inflammable and is specified by the State Govern- ment by notification in the Official Gazette for the purpose of this clause. • siesi,) r,.4rre bcai Jutnk1k-ct rr±s^araxeun .3,401.rer CHAPTER II. Fire brigade to be main- tained. Fower,AG0 State Govern- meat to make orders with respect to the fire brigade. I'M bti FIRE BRIGADE. , ba. The State Government shall maintain a fire brigade or services in the local areas in which this Act is in force. asoixrf)?, for the speedy attendance of members of the fire brigade . with necessary fire-fighting appliances on the occasion of any alarm of fire; for sending the members of the fire brigade with necessary fire-fighting appliances, beyond the limits sroc~r of any local area in which this Act is in. force, in --frul„ 1° order to extinguish fire in the neighbourhood of <"-"?:" 'such. limits on such terms and conditions as it deems proper; Aglirfi3r the employment of the members -of the fire brigade with necessary fire-fighting appliances, in work 9;t11-1! .other than extinguishing fire, on such terms and conditions as it deems proper; t,i"