2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context (i) "cotton" means raw cotton of every description, including foreign raw cotton and cotton waste ;
(ii) "Economic Adviser" means Economic Adviser to Government, [Uttar Pradesh] ;
(iii) "Indian Central Cotton Committee" means the Indian Central Cotton Committee constituted under the Indian Cotton (Cess) Act, 1923;
(iv) "owner" means the owner of a cotton ginning factory or a cotton pressing factory and includes the managing agent or other principal officer of such factory ;
(v) "prescribed date" means the thirty-first day of August; (vi) "State" means [Uttar Pradesh] ;
(vii) "trader" means a person carrying on the business of selling or purchasing cotton and includes a broker or a commission agent who makes contracts for the sale or purchase of cotton for others and stocks cotton on their behalf; or anyone holding stocks of cotton ;
(viii) the expression "cotton ginning factory" and "cotton pressing factory" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925.