Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 31. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires- "Capital Fund means the Capital Fund established under this Law; "Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board " means the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board established under the Tea Propaganda Ordinance, and includes the Tea Propaganda Board of Ceylon, being the name under which such Board was incorporated under that Ordinance; " Commissioner of Tea Exports " means the person holding the office of the Commissioner of Tea Exports; " company ' means any company established and incorporated under the provisions of any law for the time being in force in any country; " estate " means an area of land, ten acres or more in extent, on which tea plants are grown for the purpose of harvesting the leaf thereof for conversion into made tea; " green tea leaf " includes the leaf, leaf buds and immature stalks of the tea plant before they are subjected to any of the processes (excluding that known as withering) for conversion into made tea; " local authority " means any Municipal Council. Urban Council, Town Council or Village Council; " made tea " means tea manufactured from the leaves, leaf buds and immature stalks of the tea plant and includes " black tea ", " green tea "," instant tea ", " carbonated tea " or tea to which foreign essences have been added; " management "' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions includes cultivation, replantations, fertilization, soil conservation, manufacture, processing, sale and disposal of produce; " manufacturer " means any person who, being lawfully in possession of a tea factory, manufactures made tea at that factory; " Principal Collector " means the person appointed to be or to act as the Principal Collector of Customs; " rehabilitation "' when used with reference to any tea estate or tea small holding, means any operation designed to improve the agricultural conditions of such estate or small holding, and includes the application of fertilizers, the adoption of soil conservation measures and the planting of additional tea plants and any other suitable plants in such estate or small holding. "replanting ", when used with reference to any tea estate or tea small holding, means the uprooting of all existing tea plants and other vegetation in the whole or any part of such estate or small holding and their replacement by new tea plants, and includes the planting of tea plants in an area which does not form part of such estate or small holding if the tea plants in an equivalent area of such estate or small holding are eradicated within such time as the Board may specify; " small holding " means an area of land less than ten acres in extent on which tea plants are grown for the purpose of harvesting the leaf thereof for conversion into made tea; " State Corporation " means a Corporation established or maintained with funds wholly or partly provided by the Government; " tea when used with reference to planting, means tea plants, and when used in any other context means made tea; " Tea Commissioner " means the person appointed to be or to act as Tea Commissioner for the purposes of this Law; " Tea Control Fund " means the Tea Control Fund established under the Tea Control Act, No. 51 of 1957, as amended by this Law; " tea factory " means any premises equipped with machinery for the conversion of green tea leaf into made tea; " Tea Research Board " means the Board of the Tea Research Institute of Ceylon established under the Tea Research Ordinance; and " Tea Subsidy Fund " means the Tea Subsidy Fund established under the Tea Subsidy Act No. 12 of 1958. |