Section 2 in Tripura Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2013
2. Definitions.
- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,i. "Competent authority" means a competent authority appointed by the State Government under section 3(1) of the Act;ii. "Container" means a box, bottle, basket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, rack, bag, wrapper or any other things in which planting materials is placed or packed;iii. "Customer" means any person visiting the nursery, with the intention to, and or purchase the plants produced in the nursery which is to be later planted in a house, office or farm;iv. "Director" means the Director of Horticulture and Soil Conservation, Government of Tripura;v. "Export" means taking out any horticulture nursery item or planting materials out of the State or out of India by land, Sea or Air or any other means;vi. "Form" means a form devised by the State Government for specific purpose under this Act;vii. "Government" means the Government of Tripura;viii. "Horticulture" includes Fruits, Plantation crops, Vegetables, Spices & Condiments, Ornamental foliage or plants, Flowers, Medicinal and Aromatic crops &. plantations;ix. "Horticulture nursery" includes any place where fruit plantation crops and or other notified plants are propagated and sold;x. "Import" means bringing any horticulture nursery item or planting materials into the State by land, Sea, Air or any other means;xi. "Kind" means one or more related species or subspecies of crop plants, each individually or collectively known by one common name, such as mango, tomato, rose, coconut;xii. "License" means the license issued under this act by the competent authority to conduct or carry on the business for the purpose of production or sale of plants;xiii. "Notification" means a notification published in the official Gazette of Tripura and the word 'notified' shall be construed accordingly;xiv. "Nursery" means any place, where horticultural plants are in the regular course of business, propagated or sold for transplantation;xv. "Owner" in relation to a nursery means the person, association or group of persons, organization, firm, agency, company, local body, Government etc., who or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of such horticultural nursery and includes a manager, managing director or managing agent, by whatever name or designation they called, where the said affairs are entrusted to such manager, managing director or managing agent, as the case may be;xvi. "Planting material" means any planting material which is used for propagation and raising of horticulture plants and includes bud-wood, seedlings, grafts, layers, bulbs, suckers, in complete scion, root stock, roots, seeds, rhizomes, cutting and tissue culture plants;xvii. "Prescribed" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act;xviii. "Producer" means a person, group of persons, firm, agency, company or organization, who grows or organizes the production of horticultural plants;xix. "Root stock" means the fruit plant or part thereof on which any portion of plant has been grafted or budded;xx. "Sale" means sale of plants made within the State for cash or deferred payment or other valuable consideration;xxi. "Scion" means a portion of a plant, which is grafted or budded on to the rootstock;xxii. "Variety" means a plant grouping except microorganism within a single botanical taxonomy of the lowest known rank, which can bei. defined by the expression of the characteristics resulting from a given genotype of that plant grouping;ii. distinguished from any other plant grouping by expression of at least one of the said characteristics; andiii. considered as a unit with regard to its suitability for being propagated, which remains unchanged after such propagation and includes propagating material of such variety, extant variety, transgenic variety, farmers, variety and essentially derived variety;xxiii. "Nurseryman" means any person engaged in production and sale of any horticulture plants;xxiv. "Inspecting Officer" means any authorized person who can inspect the nursery records, registers and health of plant or planting materials;
