State Act

THE PUDUCHERRY STATE AID TO INDUSTRIES ACT, 1970

2. Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) “Board” means the Board of Industries constituted under section 4; (b) “cottage industry”, means an industrial business or enterprise carried on in any premises to which the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act No. 63 of 1948) does not apply and includes dairy farming, bee-keeping and poultry farming; (c) “Government” means the Administrator of the Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution; (d) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (e) “Sanctioning Authority” means any authority, officer or other person authorised to grant aid by or under this Act; (f) “small-scale industry” means an industrial business or enterprise the capital invested in which does not exceed five lakhs of rupees; (g) “transfer” with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions includes sale, exchange, mortgage, charge, lease or gift; (h) “Union territory” means the Union territory of Puducherry; (i) “village industry” means any industry which forms the normal occupation, whether whole time or part-time, of any class of the rural population of the Union territory.