Definitions

.-Inthis Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "animals " means animals useful to human beings and includes fish and fowl, and such kinds of wild life as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, being kinds which, in its opinion, it is desirable to protect or preserve;

(b) "Board " means the Central Insecticides Board constituted under section 4;

(c) "Central Insecticides Laboratory " means the Central Insecticides Laboratory established,or, as the case may be, the Institution specified, under section 16;

(d) "import " means bringing into any place within the territories to which this Act extends from a place outside those territories;

(e) "insecticide " means-

(f) "Insecticide Analyst " means an Insecticide Analyst appointed under section 19;

(g) "Insecticide Inspector " means an Insecticide Inspector appointed under section 20;

(h) "label " means any written, printed or graphic matter on the imme-diate package and on every other covering in which the package is placed or packed and includes any written, printed or graphic matter accompanying the insecticide;

(i) "licensing officer " means a licensing officer appointed under section 12;

(j) "manufacture ", in relation to any insecticide, includes-

(k) "misbranded "-an insecticide shall be deemed to be misbranded-

(l) "package " means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag, wrapper or other thing in which an insecticide is placed or packed;

(m) "premises " means any land, shop, stall or place where any insecticide is sold or manufactured or stored or used, and includes any vehicle carrying insecticide;

(n) "prescribed " means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(o) "registered ", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means registered under this Act;

(p) "sale ", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the sale of any insecticide, whether for cash or on credit and whether by wholesale or retail, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in possession for sale of any

(q) "State Government ", in relation to a Union Territory, means the administrator thereof;

(r) "worker " means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship.