In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a)“appointed day” means the date of commencement of this Act;
(b)“Board” means the Board of Directors of the National Dairy Development Board;
(c)“Chairman” means the Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board;
(d)“Companies Act” means the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);
(e)“director” means a director of the National Dairy Development Board, and includes the Chairman;
(f)“foodstuffs” means such of the foodstuffs as are included in the definition of essential commodities as contained in clause (a) of section 2 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955);
(g)“Indian Dairy Corporation” means the Indian Dairy Corporation, a company formed and registered under the Companies Act, and having its registered office at Baroda in the State of Gujarat.
(h)“milk product” means—
(i)sterilised, standardised, recombined, toned, double-toned, skimmed, flavoured or acidified milk;
(ii)ice-cream;
(iii)cream;
(iv)cheese;
(v)butter;
(vi)milk powders;
(vii)weaning foods with milk and infant milk foods;
(viii)malted milk foods with or without cocoa powder;
(ix)ghee;
(x)anhydrous milk fat and butter oil;
(xi)casein;
(xii)any other product containing milk or all or any of the milk products specified above which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf;
(i)“National Dairy Development Board” means the National Dairy Development Board incorporated under section 4;
(j)“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
(k)“restructuring and streamlining”, in relation to the organisational and functional set-up of the National Dairy Development Board, includes—
(i)opening or closing of units or offices;
(ii)revision of the organisational and functional set-up;
(iii)declaration of staff required;
(iv)integration of posts, fixation of seniority and pay scales;
(v)integration of required personnel in the revised set-up and issuance of appointment orders in that behalf;
(vi)declaration or demarcation of duties and responsibilities attendant to posts;
(vii)declaration of posts equivalent to one another; and
(viii)any other matter that may be necessary of incidental to meet the organisational or functional needs of the National Dairy Development Board;
(l)“society” means the National Dairy Development Board, a society formed and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) and functioning as such immediately before the appointed day;
(m)words and expressions used herein and not defined, but defined in the Companies Act, have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.