(1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Definitions.
(a) "competent authority" means any officer appointed as such under section 4;
(b) "Director" means the Director of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture, Government of West Bengal;
(c) "horticultural nursery" means a place where horticultural plant is, in the regular course of business, propagated or sold for transplantation or sowing;
(d) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
'For proceedings of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, see the proceedings of 'the meeting of that Assembly held on the 11th December, 2001.
Short title, extent and commencement.
279 The West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001.
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(e) "nurseryman" means a person engaged in the production and sale of horticultural plant or horticultural seed or horticultural plant material;
(f) "plant material" means the material used for propagation and raising of horticultural plant, and includes bud wood, scion, root-stock, sucker, root, seed, cutting, seedlings, tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, grafts, gooties, other vegetatively propagated materials of food crops including vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Explanation.—"scion" or "bud wood" shall mean the part of a plant used for grafting or budding a root-stock or tree;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) "root-stock" means a fruit plant or part thereof on which any other plant or part thereof has been grafted or budded;
(i) "variety" means a sub-division of a kind identifiable by growth, yield, plant, fruits or other characteristics.
Horticultural nurseries not to be established or maintained without registration and licence.