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2 The West Diengal Markets Regulation Act, 1968. [President's Act (4) "commission agent" means a person who buys and sells agricultural produce for any person, keeps it. in hiscustody and controls it during the process of its sale or purchase, and collects pay- ment 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; (5) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture, West Bengal, and includes the Additional Director of Agriculture (Marketing), West Bengal; (6) "District Magistrate?' means the chief officer charged with the executive administration of a district in criminal matters by whatever designation called, and includes an Additional District Magistrate; (7) "Inspecting Officer" means an Inspecting -Officer appointed under section 23; (8) "licensing authority" means the authority referred to in, section 3 for issuing a licence under that section; (9) "market" means any place at which people ordinarily assemble, either daily or on fixed days for the purchase or sale of agricultural produce, irrespective of whether any other commodity is purchased or sold in such place or not, and includes any place at which any fair or niela is held for more than three consecutive days : Provided that the State Government may, if it so thinks fit in the public interest, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any such place not to be a market and thereupon such place shall not be deemed to be a market for the purposes of this Act ; (10) "market committee" means a market committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 9 and includes a special market committee consti- tuted under the proviso to that sub-section; (11) "measurer" means a person whose business is to measure a consignment of agricultural produce for sale; (12) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (13) "proprietor" in relation to a market includes the lessee thereof ; (14) "rent", in relation to a market, means anything lawfully payable in cash or in kind to the proprietor of the market for the use or occupa- tion of any land, with or without any structure thereon, in the market; West Bengal Act XXIII of 1958 The West Bengal Markets Regulation Act, 1968. •3 28 of 1968.] (15) "standard weight" and "standard measure" have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the West Bengal Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1958; (16) "Sub-divisional Magistrate" means any Magistrate in charge of a sub-division of a district and includes an Additional Sub-divisional Magistrate; (17) "trade allowance" means anything realised in cash or in kind by the purchaser from the seller in any transaction relating to agricultural produce either by deduction from the price agreed upon or otherwise; Explanation.—In this clause "purchaser" includes a commission agent; (18) "warehouseman" means a person whose business is to store agricultural produce in any building, structure or enclosure on behalf of persons depositing such produce; and (19) "weighman" means a •person who, in the ordinary course of business, is engaged in the weighing of agricultural produce in connection with a transaction of sale or purchase thereof.