law: Essential Commodities Act, 1955 
  2. Definitions
  
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  [ 3 ( ia )
  
  "Code" means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1973); 3 ]
  [ 4 5 ( iia )
  
  "Collector" includes an Additional Collector and such other officer,
  
  not below the rank of Sub-Divisional Officer, as may be authorized by the
  
  Collector to perform the functions and exercise the powers of the Collector
  
  under this Act; 4 ]
  (a) "essential
  
  commodity" means any of the following classes of commodities
  ( i )
  
  cattle fodder, including oilcakes and other concentrates,
  (ii) coal, including
  
  coke and other derivatives,
  (iii) component parts
  
  and accessories of automobiles;
  (iv) cotton and woolen
  
  textiles;
  [ 6 (iv-a) drugs;
  Explanation : In this sub-clause,
  
  "drug" has the meaning assigned to it in CI.(b) of Sec. 3 of the
  
  Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940); 6 ]
  (v) foodstuffs,
  
  including edible oilseeds and oils;
  (vi) iron and steel,
  
  including manufactured products of iron and steel;
  (vii) paper, including
  
  newsprint, paperboard and straw board;
  (viii) petroleum and
  
  petroleum products;
  (ix) raw cotton,
  
  whether ginned or unginned , and cotton seed;
  (x) raw jute;
  (xi) any other class
  
  of commodity which the Central Government may, by notified order, declare to be
  
  an essential commodity for the purposes of this Act, being a commodity with
  
  respect to which Parliament has power to make laws by virtue of entry 33 in
  
  List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution;
  (b)
  
  "food-crops" include crops of sugarcane;
  (c) "notified
  
  order" means an order notified in the Official Gazette;
  [ 7 (cc) "order" includes a
  
  direction issued thereunder ; 7 ]
  [ 8 (d) "State Government", in
  
  relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof; 8 ]
  [ 9 (e) "sugar" means, -
  ( i )
  
  any form of sugar containing more than ninety per cent of sucrose, including
  
  sugar candy;
  (ii)  khandsari sugar or bura sugar or
  
  crushed sugar or any sugar in crystalline or powdered form; or
  (iii) sugar-in-process
  
  in vacuum pan sugar factory or raw sugar produced therein; 9 ]
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  [ 11 (f) Words and expressions used but not
  
  defined in this Act and defined in the Code shall have the meanings
  
  respectively assigned to them in that Code. 11 ]