Definitions.- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires ,-(a)[ "Act" means the Insecticides Act, 1968 (46 of 1968); [ Substituted by G.S.R. 548(E), dated 12.9.2006, for Cls. (a) to (s) (w.e.f. 12.9.2006).](b)"Commercial Pest Control Operation" means any application or dispersion of insecticide including fumigants in household or public or private premises or land and includes pest control operations in the fields including aerial applications for commercial purposes but excludes private use;(c)"dealer" means a person carrying on the business of selling insecticides, whether wholesale or retail, and includes an agent of a dealer;(d)"expiry date" means the date that is mentioned on the container, label or wrapper of an insecticide against the column "date of expiry";(e)"Form" means a form set out in the First Schedule;(f)"Laboratory" means the Central Insecticides Laboratory;(g)"manufacturer" means any person who manufactures insecticides and includes a formulator of the insecticides;(h)"pests" means any insect, rodent, fungi, weed and other forms of plant or animal life not useful to human beings;(i)"Pest Control Operator" means any person who undertakes pest control operations and includes the person or the firm or the company or the organisation under whose control such a person is operating;(j)"primary package" means the immediate package containing the insecticides;(k)"principal" means the importer or manufacturer of insecticides, as the case may be;(l)"registration" includes provisional registration;(m)"rural area" means an area which falls outside the limits of any Municipal Corporation or Municipal Committee or a Notified Area Committee or a Cantonment;(n)"Schedule" means a Schedule annexed to these rules;(o)"secondary package" means a package which is neither a primary package nor a transportation package;(p)"section" means a section of the Act;(q)"testing facility" means an operational unit where the experimental studies are being carried out or have been carried out in relation to submission of data on product quality or on safety or on efficacy or on residues or on stability in storage of the insecticides for which an application for registration is made;(r)"transportation package" means the outer most package used for transportation of insecticides.]
