2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“Board” means the International Enterprise Singapore Board established under section 3 of the International Enterprise Singapore Board Act;
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“deal” means to broke in, purchase or sell rubber but does not include the purchase, sale or brokerage of rubber by means of a commodity futures contract within the meaning of the Commodity Futures Act [Cap. 48A];
“licence” means a licence granted under section 4;
“licensee” means any person who holds a licence granted under this Act;
“rubber” means marketable rubber prepared from the leaves, bark or latex of any rubber plant, but does not include any manufactured article made wholly or partly of rubber;
“rubber plant” includes any of the following plants:
(a)
Heavea brasiliensis (Para rubber);
(b)
Manihot glaziovii (Ceara rubber);
(c)
Castilloa elastica;
(d)
Ficus elastica (Rambong); and
(e)
any other plant which the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a rubber plant for the purposes of this Act;
“to pack rubber for export” means to pack rubber in Singapore for export to any country or place;
“to ship rubber for export” means to ship rubber in Singapore for export to any country or place;
“treat”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to subject to any process whatsoever;
“Singapore Rubber Fund” means the Singapore Rubber Fund established under section 14 of the Rubber Association of Singapore (Incorporation) Act [Cap. 278] repealed by the Trade Development Board (Amendment) Act 1992 [Act 16 of 1992] and transferred to and administered by the Board by virtue of section 26H of the Trade Development Board Act [Cap. 330].