Section 2Definitions

s. 2

2. Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) “Collector” means the officer appointed by the Government to perform in any specified area the duties of a Collector under the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, and includes any officer subordinate to that officer whom he may by order in writing authorise to perform his duties under those provisions; (b) “the Committee” means the Bangladesh Food and Agriculture Committee set up under sub section (1) of section 5A of the Agricultural Produce Cess Act, 1940, or any body which replaces the said Committee under sub section (2) of that section; (c) “mill” means any place in which copra is crushed for the extraction of oil, which is a factory as defined in section 2 of the [Factories Act, 1965]; (d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

1. 2. The words, comma and figure “Factories Act, 1965” were substituted for the words, comma and figure “Factories Act, 1934” by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)