Definitions Of Essential Commodities Act, 1955 :
Section – 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
| (a) | [* * *] | |
| [(ia) | “Code” means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974);] | |
| [(iia)] | “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;] | |
| (b) | “food-crops” include crops of sugarcane; | |
| (c) | “notified order” means an order notified in the Official Gazette; | |
| [(cc) | “order” includes a direction issued thereunder;] | |
| [(d) | “State Government”, in relation to a Union Territory, means the administrator thereof;] | |
| [(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. |
| [(f) | Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Code shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Code.] |