3.In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a)“animal” means animal useful to human beings and includes honey bees
•and other beneficial insects, earthworms, fish and fowl and such kinds of wild life as
•the Central Government may, by notification, specify, being kinds which in its opinion,
•it is desirable to protect or preserve;
(b)“banned”, in relation to a molecule or formulation of a pesticide, means the
•prohibition of its manufacture, import, sale, distribution and use in order to protect
•human health, other living organisms or the environment;
(c)“batch” means an identifiable quantity of a technical grade pesticide or its
•formulation which has been manufactured and processed under uniform conditions
•in a single lot;
(d)“Board” means the Central Pesticides Board constituted under section 4;
(e)“Central Pesticides Laboratory” means the Central Pesticides Laboratory
•established under section 37;
(f)“certificate of registration” means a certificate of registration of a pesticide
•granted under sections 18, 19 and 20;
(g)“dispose” means to carry out any process that neutralises, destroys or
•isolates pesticides and their packages, including physico-chemical treatment,
•biological treatment or incineration, but does not include a process that leads to the
•reuse, recycling, recovery or utilisation of pesticides, including through co-processing
•and the terms “disposal” and “disposed” shall be construed accordingly;
(h)“distribution” means the process by which pesticides are supplied through
•trade channels to domestic or international markets;
(i)“environment” includes water, air and land and the interrelationship which
•exists among and between water, air and land, and human beings, other living
•creatures, plants, micro-organisms and property;
(j)“export” means taking out to any place outside those territories to which this
•Act extends from a place inside the territories;
(k)“formulation” means a preparation containing one or more technical grade
•pesticides in specified proportions along with other ingredients in specified
•proportions;
(l)“import” means bringing into any place within the territories to which this
•Act extends from a place outside those territories;
(m)“label” means any written, printed or graphical representation on or attached
•to the immediate package, or on any covering in which the package is placed or
•packed;
(n)“leaflet” means any written, printed or graphical representation accompanying
•the package;
(o)“Licensing Officer” means a Licensing Officer appointed under section 27;
(p)“manufacture” includes any process or part of a process for making, altering,
•finishing, packing, labelling, repacking or relabeling any pesticide or formulation with
•a view to its ultimate sale, distribution or use;
(q)“notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
•Declaration of
•expediency of
•Union
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(r)“ordinary use pesticide” means any pesticide intended for use only in
•households, offices and similar premises, but excludes pesticides intended for use in
•agriculture, industry, pest control operations, public health or storage;
(s)“other ingredients” means inert materials, dispersing agents, emulsifying
•agents, wetting agents, surfactants, stabilisers, preservatives, perfumes, colouring
•agents or other substances which are biologically inactive and are added in a specified
•proportion to a technical grade pesticide to make a formulation;
(t)“package” means a box, bottle, casket, tin, barrel, case, receptacle, sack, bag,
•wrapper, or other things in which a pesticide is placed or packed;
(u)“person” includes any individual, company, association, or body of
•individuals, whether incorporated or not;
(v)“pest” means any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic
•agent that is unwanted or injurious to plants, plant products, human beings, animals,
•other living creatures and the environment and includes vectors of parasites or
•pathogens of human and animal diseases and vermin as defined in the Wild Life
•(Protection) Act, 1972;
(w)“pesticidal property” means such property of a substance that have the
•same chemical or biological action as a pesticide;
(x)“pesticide” means any substance or mixture of substances, including a
•formulation of chemical or biological origin intended for preventing, destroying,
•attracting, repelling, mitigating or controlling any pest in agriculture, industry, pest
•control operations, public health, storage or for ordinary use, and includes any
•substance intended for use as a plant growth regulator, defoliant, desiccant, fruit
•thinning agent, or sprouting inhibitor and any substance applied to crops either
•before or after harvest to protect them from deterioration during storage and transport;
(y)“Pesticide Analyst” means a Pesticide Analyst appointed under section 39;
(z)“pest control operator” means any person other than a worker conducting
•pest control operations for commercial consideration, and includes the person, firm,
•company or organisation under whose control such person is operating;
•(za) “Pesticide Inspector” means a Pesticide Inspector appointed under
