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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions. (a) "competent authority" means any officer appointed as such under section 4; (b) "Director" means the Director of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture, Government of West Bengal; (c) "horticultural nursery" means a place where horticultural plant is, in the regular course of business, propagated or sold for transplantation or sowing; (d) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; 'For proceedings of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, see the proceedings of 'the meeting of that Assembly held on the 11th December, 2001. Short title, extent and commence- ment. 279 The West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001. [West Ben. Act (Section 3.) (e) "nurseryman" means a person engaged in the production and sale of horticultural plant or horticultural seed or horticultural plant material; (f) "plant material" means the material used for propagation and raising of horticultural plant, and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, sucker, root, seed, cutting, seedlings, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, grafts, gooties, other vegetatively propagated materials of food crops including vegetables, fruits and flowers. Explanation.—"scion" or "bud wood" shall mean the part of a plant used for grafting or budding a root-stock or tree; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "root-stock" means a fruit plant or part thereof on which any other plant or part thereof has been grafted or budded; (i) "variety" means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by growth, yield, plant, fruits or other characteristics. Horticultural nurseries not to be established or main- tained without registration and licence.