Definitions
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) “border area” means the area of land lying within ten miles adjacent to the frontier of Bangladesh;
(b) “dealer” means any person who purchases, or negotiates for the purchase of, or stores, or sells, or undertakes the grading or baling or spinning or manufacturing of, jute or jute manufactures and includes all kinds of dealers in jute and jute manufactures commonly known as faria, bepari, paikar, arathdar, broker, commission agent, kutcha baler, pucca baler, manufacturer, export agent, and exporter, but does not include a grower of jute storing or selling his own produce;
(c) “Director” means the Director, Directorate of Jute, Government of Bangladesh and includes any person who, for the time being, performs the duties of that office;
(d) “grow” with its grammatical variations, when used in relation to jute, includes “sow” with its grammatical variations, irrespective of whether the jute is harvested or not;
(e) “grower's card” means a card issued to a grower of jute under sub-section (2) of section 4;
[(f) “grower of jute” means any person who, either himself or by members of his family or by hired labourers or by any arrangement to share the produce, grows jute in any year on any land in his possession and includes, in relation to any land, any person who, as adhiar, bargadar, bhagdar or otherwise, receives any share of jute grown in such land;]
(g) “jute” means the plant known botanically as belonging to the genus corchorus, and includes all the species of that genus, whether known commonly as pat, kosta, nalia or by any other name, and also means the plant known botanically as hibiscus cannabinus and known commonly as mesta, and includes any jute fibre which has not been subjected to any process of spinning or weaving;
(h) “land” includes any land on which jute is grown in any year but does not include any land on which, with the permission in writing of the Government or any person authorised by the Government in this behalf, jute is grown in any year for bona fide experimental or demonstrational purposes.
