In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) "Board" means the Coal Board established under section 4;
(b) "blending" means the process of intimately mixing different varieties of coal so as to provide a mixture which on carbonisation results in coke, which, in the opinion of the Board, is suitable for being used in metallurgical industries, particularly in iron and steel industries;
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(c) "coal" includes coke in all its forms;
(d) "coking coal" means such type of coal from which carbonisation coke suitable, in the opinion of the Board, being used in metallurgical industries, particularly in iron a steel industries, can be prepared;
(e) "Chief Inspector" and "Inspector" mean the person1 respectively appointed as the Chief Inspector of Mines anc Inspector of Mines under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Indian Mines Act, 1923 (IV of 1923) and the provisions of that Act shall apply to the Chief Inspector and to all Insp"e<rtprs while exercising their powers under this Ordinance or the rulfes.^nade thereunder;
(/) "Fund" means the Coal Mines Safety and Conservation Fund constituted under section 12;
(g) "India" means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this- Ordinance;
(i) "soft coke" means all coke which is unsuitable for being used in metallurgical industries, and "hard coke" means all coke which is not soft coke;
(j) "stowing" means the operation of filling viith sand or any other material or with both spaces left underground in a coal mine by the extraction of coal;
(k) "washing" means such a process or a combination of processes as may be approved in this behalf by the Board by which the whole or any part*of the shaley and mineral matter found in the coal is removed therefrom.
(I) "agent", "mine" and "owner" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 3 of the Indian Mines Act, 1923 (IV of 1923).