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Jharkhand · 1955 · Section 2

Section 2 — Definitions.

The Essential Commodities Act, 1955

2. Definitions.―In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,― 

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[(ia) “Collector” includes an Additional Collector and such other officer, not below the rank 

of Sub-Divisional Officer, as may be authorised by the Collector to perform the functions and 

exercise the powers of the Collector under this Act;] 

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 (b) “food-crops” include crops of sugarcane; 

 (c) “notified order” means an order notified in the Official Gazette;  

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[(cc) “order” includes a direction issued thereunder;] 

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[(d) “State Government,” in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof;] 

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[(e) “sugar” means― 

(i) any form of sugar containing more than ninety per cent, of sucrose, including sugar 

candy; 

(ii) khandsari sugar or bura sugar or crushed sugar or any sugar in crystalline or powdered 

form; or 

(iii) sugar in process in vacuum pan sugar factory or raw sugar produced therein.]

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