 the indian coconut co~ttee (~ndment) bill, 1955(as introduced in lolc sabra)  ment) bill, 19s5 (as introduced in lok sabra) a billfurther to amend the indian coconut committee act, 1944 be it enacted by parliament in the sixth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the indian coconut committee ho tl s rt tie (amendment) act, 1955 and commencement s (2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint 2 in section 2 of the indian coconut committee act, 1944 (here- am elm after in this act referred to as the principal act)-of 8~onen!1 act x of (i) after clause (bb), the following clause shall be inserted, 1944 namely:-10 "(bbb) 'managing agent' has the meaning assigned to it in the indian companies act, 1913"; vii of j~j3 (ii) after clause (c), the following clause shall be inserted  namely:-" "(cc) 'occupier' in relation to any mill, means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the mill and where the said affairs are entrusted to a managing agent, such agent shall be deemed t~ be the occupier of the mill"  3 in section 4 of the principal act,·-(a) in clause (b),-amendment of 5cclion 4, act x 01 1944 (i) for the words "ten pcrso1s"' the words "twelve persons" shall be substituted; and (ii) for the words "two shall be nominated by the govt>rn· 5 ment of mac:tras, three by the government of the state of 'fravancore-cochin", the words "three shall be nominated by the government of madras, fom by the government of travancore-cochin" shall be substi-tuted; 10 " -_  - --(b) in clause (c), for the word "association", the word  ,' "chaffi'aef~' shall be substkuted;  (c) in clause (d),-(i) for the words "five persons", the words "eight persons" shall be substituted; and j 5 (ii) for the word "madras", the words "bombay, _madra~, orissa, west bengal,", shall be substituted: (d) in clause (1), for the words "one person", the words "five persons" shall be substituted; (e) for clause (g), the following clause shall be substituted, ,0'  namely:-"(g) three other persons, of whom two shall be elected from among themselves by the members of the house of the people and one shall be elected from among themselves by the members of the council of states" 25 amendment 4 in sections 9a, 10 11, 12 and 13 of the principal act, for the ;~,-;~0:'i, word "owner" wherever it occurs, the word "occupier" shall be 12, and 13, substituted actxof  1944, ,,~   the question of l'econstitutin~f the- indian central coconut committee has been under consideration of the government of india for some time section 4(b) of the indian coconut committee act, 1944 provided for nine representatives of growers of coconut in india under the andhra (adaptation of laws on union s\:bje~ts) or-der, 1954, this number was raised to ten thereby giving representation to the state of andhra the representation of growers on the committee is even now considered inadequate and it hlu; been decid~ ed to increase the number of growers' representatives to twelve and allot these two seats to the representatives of growers in madras and travancore-cochin ' the representation given to the state governments on the committee is also not considered adequate the committee have been' running some schemes in the states of bombay, orissa~_and west bengal and these states do not have any representation on: the committee it has' therefore been decided to give them rppresentation on the committee by amending section 4(d) of the act under section 4(f) of the act one person is appointed by the' central government as a member of the committee it has been decided-to increase the number of members to be appointed by the' government under the above section from one to five   the word "owner" in relation to a mill has been used in several pla~es in the act, but has not been defined it is proposed to substitute the word "'occupier" for the word "owner" throughout the' act ~nd to insert a comprehensive definition of "occupier" so that action under the act may be effective a p jain new delhi;' the 6th august, 1955  extracts from the indian coconut comwtl'ee ar:r 1944 lar:r no x of 1944)constitution· f as soon as may be after the commencement of this act, the-~ central government shall cause to be constituted a committee conmittee sisting of the following members to receive for credit to the fund the proceeds of the duty and any other moneys received by it and toadminister the fund, namely:-- - - - - (b) ten persons representing the growers of coconut in india, of whom two shall be nominated by the government of madras, three by the government of the state of travanoore-cochin and one each by the government of bombay, the government of west bengal, the government of orissa, the government of the state of mysore, and the government of andhra; (c) five persons representing the coconut oil industry, two of whom shall be nominated by the government of the state of travancore-cochin and one each by the government of madras, the indian merchants association, bombay, and the bombay chamber of commerce, bombay (d) five persons representing, respectively, the governments~ of andhra, assam, madras, mysore and travancore·cochin, appointed in each case by the state government concerned; - - - - - (f) one person appointed by the central government; (g) six other persons, of whom two shall ,be elected from amongthemselves by the members of the house of the people, one shall be elected from among themselves by the members of the council of states, one shall be nominated by  the government of the state of mysore and two shall benominated by the government of the state of travancore-cochin -  - - - a bill further to amend the indian coconut committee ai;t, 1944 (shri ajit prqmuj jain, m" of ptjdd ttnd ~) 