In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) “Agmark label” and “Agmark replica” mean the Agmark label and the Agmark replica as specified in the General Grading Marking Rules, 1988 ;
(b) “Agricultural Marketing adviser” means the Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India ;
(c) “Authorised packer” means a person or body of persons who has been granted a certificate of Authorisation to grade and mark the cloves whole and/or cloves powder in accordance with the grade standards and procedure prescribed under these rules ;
(d) “Approved Chemist” means chemist approved by the competent authority to undertake Agmark grading ;
(e) “Approved laboratory” means laboratory approved by the competent authority for testing of cloves whole and/or cloves powder for Agmark grading ;
(f) “Certificate of Authorisation” means a certificate issued under rule 3 of the General Grading and Marking Rules, 1988 ;
(g) “General Grading and Marking Rules” means the General Grading and Marking Rules, 1988 under the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937 (1 of 1937) ;
(h) “Grade designation mark” means the Agmark level or the Agmark replica referred to in subrule (1) or sub-rule (2) of rule 5, as the case may be of these rules;
(i) “Clove stem” means stalk of above bud and flowers;
(j) “Headless clove” means cloves consisting of only the receptacle and sepals without the dome shaped head;
(k) “Khoker clove” means cloves which have undergone fermentation due to improper drying with a pale-brown colour, whitish mealy appearance and wrinkled surface :
(l) “Mother clove” means the fruit of clove tree in the form of an oval brown berry surmounted by four incurved sepals :
(m) “Schedule” means a schedule appended to these rules.