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(25) "manufacture" includes —

1. (a) every process whether natural or artificial by which any liquor or intoxicating drug is produced, prepared or blended and also redistillation and every process for the ¹[rectification, flavouring, or colouring of liquor or intoxicating drug]¹ but does not include flavouring, blending or colouring of liquor or intoxicating drug lawfully possessed for private consumption; and
2. (b) every process of producing and drawing of toddy from trees;

(26) "Medical Board" means a board constituted under section 8;

(27) "mhowra flower" does not include the berry or seed of the mhowra tree;

²[(28) "molasses" means the heavy, dark coloured viscous liquid produced during the manufacture of gur or sugar containing in solution or suspension, sugars which can be fermented, and includes the solid form of such liquid and also any product formed by the addition to such liquid or solid of any ingredient which does not substantially alter the character of such liquid or solid; and shall also include substances containing sugars obtained from sugarcane known as black coloured gur and residual substances obtained from khandsari known as third sugar or raskat or sayar and irrespective of its colour rotten gur or rotten rab which conform to the following analytical standards on dry weight basis,—]²

1. (i) total sugars (expressed as invert sugar) less than 85 per cent, and sucrose less than 57 per cent.; or
2. (ii) extraneous matter insoluble in water more than 2 per cent; or
3. (iii) total ash more than 6 per cent.; or
4. (iv) ash insoluble in Hydrochloric acid (HCL) more than 0.5 per cent.; or
5. (v) more than 10 per cent. of moisture;

but does not include any article which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare not to be molasses, for the purposes of this Act.]

(29) "Officer in charge of a Police Station" includes —

1. (a) in the Greater Bombay, the Officer in charge of a police station as provided under the provisions of the ³[Bombay Police Act, 1951]³; and
2. (b) elsewhere the Officer in charge of a police station as defined in the ^*Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;

(30) "opium" means —

1. (a) the capsules of the poppy (Papaver somniferum L.), ⁴[whether in their original form or cut, or crushed or powdered and whether or not the juice has been extracted therefrom]⁴;
2. (b) the spontaneously coagulated juice of such capsules which has not been submitted to any manipulation other than those necessary for packing and transport; and
3. (c) any mixture with or without neutral materials of any of the above forms of opium;