In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context— — THE UNITED PROVINCES COTTON (STATISTICS) ACT, 1947

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] 3 ; (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]" 4 means [Uttar Pradesh] 3 ; (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.

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