In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:
(a) Assigned area means an area assigned to a factory under Section 15;
(b) 1[***];
(c) Cane means sugarcane intended for use in a factory 2[or gur, rab or khandsari sugar manufacturing unit];
(d) Cane Commissioner means the Officer appointed to be Cane Commissioner under Section
9, and includes an Additional Cane Commissioner appointed under Section 10;
(e) Cane-grower means a person who cultivates cane either by himself or by members of his
family or by hired labour and who is not a members of a Cane-Growers' Co-operative
Society;
(f) Cane-growers' Co-operative Society means a society registered under the Co-operative
Societies Act, 1912, one of the objects of which is to sell cane-grown by its members and
includes the federation of such societies registered under Section 8 of the said Act;
(g) Collector includes any person whom the State Government may, by notification appoint to
exercise and perform the powers and duties of Collector under this Act;
(h) Council means the Cane Development Council established under Section 5;
(i) Crushing season means the period 3
[beginning on the 1st October in any year and ending
on the 15th July next following;]
4
[(i-i) Ethanol means anhydrous ethyl alcohol of minimum 99 percentage strength, produced
directly either from sugarcane juice or B-Heavy molasses or both.
Explanation - When a sugar factory produces ethanol directly from sugarcane juice of BHeavy molasses, the recovery rate in case of such sugar factory shall be determined by considering
every six hundred litres of ethanol so produced as equivalent to one ton production of sugar;]
5
[(j) Factory means any premises, including the precincts thereof wherein twenty or more
workers are working or were working on any day during the preceding twelve months and
in any part of which any manufacturing process connected with the production of sugar by
means of vacuum pan process or ethanol either directly from sugarcane juice or molasses,
including B-Heavy molasses, or both as the case may be, is being carried on or is ordinarily
carried on with the aid of mechanical power;]
6
[(j-i) Gur, Rab and Khandsari Sugar Manufacturing Unit means a unit engaged or ordinarily
engaged in the manufacture or production of gur, rab or khandsari sugar in a reserved area,
and which is capable of handling sugarcane juice produced with the aid of a crusher driven
by any mechanical power;]
7
[(j-ii) Inspector means any person appointed or any officer designated as inspector under
Section 11;]
8
[(k) Occupier in relation to a factory or a gur, rab or khandsari Sugar Manufacturing Unit,
means the person (including a company, firm or other association of individuals) who, or
the authority which, owns or has the ultimate control over the affairs of such factory or
unit and where the said affairs are entrusted to a Managing Agent or a Director or other
Officer of such person or authority, includes such Managing Agent, Director or other
officer;
Explanation - Notwithstanding that the affairs of a factory or unit are entrusted to a Managing
Agent or a Director other officer, the liability under Section 17 of the person, who or the authority
which owns or has the ultimate control over the affairs of the factory or unit shall remain unaffected;]
(l) Prescribed means prescribed by rules;
(m) 9
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[(n) Reserved area shall mean the area reserved for a factory under an Order for reservation
of Sugarcane areas made under Rule 125-B of the Defence of India Rules, 1962, and when
no such order is in force, the area specified in an order made under Section 15;]
(o) Rules means a rule made under this Act;
(p) State Government means the Government of Uttar Pradesh; and
(q) Sugar Commissioner means the officer appointed to be Sugar Commissioner under
Section 9 and includes 11[
and Additional Sugar Commissioner] appointed under Section
10.
1 Omitted by U.P. Act no. XVII of 2006 with effect from 30.05.2006 2 Inserted by Section 2 (1) of U.P. Act no. IV of 1964 3 Substituted by Section 2 of U.P. Act no. VI of 1971 with effect from 30.06.1970 4 Inserted by Section 2(a) of U.P. Act no. XXIII of 2008 with effect from 29.08.2008 5 Substituted by Section 2(b) of U.P. Act no. XXIII of 2008 with effect from 29.08.2008 6 Added by Section 3 (1) of U.P. Act no. III of 1960 7 Inserted by Section 2 of U.P. Act no. XXXIV of 1976 with effect from 18.11.1976 8 Substituted and be deemed always to have been substituted by Section 2 (a) of U.P. Act no. VII of 1974 9 Omitted by Section 2 (b) of U.P. Act no. VII of 1974 with effect from 21.12.1973 10 Substituted and and be deemed always to have been substituted by Section 2(2) of U.P. Act no. IV of 1964 11 Inserted by Section 2(3) of U.P. Act no. IV of 1964 with effect from 12.02.1964