State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES COTTON PEST CONTROL ACT, 1936

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Uttarakhand Repealing Act, 2023 (Uttarakhand Act 27 of 2023), s.2 and Schedule item 109; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) "controlled area" means any part of [Uttar Pradesh]4 in which the Act is in force by virtue of a notification issued under sub-section (3) of section 1; (b) "prescribed" means prescribed by or under rules framed under this Act; (c) "raw cotton" means the unginned locks of the cotton plant commonly known as kapas ; (d) "seed" means the seed of the cotton plant. ; (e) "hand ginning" means ginning by means of apparatus operated by human power; (f) "treat" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to subject seed to a prescribed process for the purposes of freeing it from infection by a pest.