1. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "board" means the Industrial Licensing Board established under section 2 ;
"cottage industry" means, in relation to the manufacture of any scheduled article, any single unit of industry in which-
no more than ten workers are employed;
no prime mover is utilised;
"functions" includes powers and duties;
"licence" means a licence issued under this Act;
"manufacture" means to subject any physical matter to any process-
which materially changes the matter in substance, character or appearance; and
which results in the matter, after being so processed, being a scheduled article, whether or not it was such an article before the process;
"Minister" means the Minister to whom functions under this Act are assigned;
"secretary" means the secretary to the Industrial Licensing Board; and
"scheduled article" means any article falling within any class of product specified in the Schedule to this Act.
Section analysis Source linked
This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "board" means the Industrial Licensing Board established under section 2;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- (b) "cottage industry" means, in relation to the manufacture of any scheduled article, any single unit of industry in which-
- (i) no more than ten workers are employed;
- (ii) no prime mover is utilised;
- (c) "functions" includes powers and duties;
- (d) "licence" means a licence issued under this Act;
- (e) "manufacture" means to subject any physical matter to any process-
- (i) which materially changes the matter in substance, character or appearance; and
- (ii) which results in the matter, after being so processed, being a scheduled article, whether or not it was such an article before the process;
3 further items remain in the statutory text above.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.
No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.