Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Agreement” means the International Tin Agreement 1953

and includes any Agreement which may be substituted therefor;

“buffer stock” means the buffer stock to be established under

Part VIII of the Agreement;

“certificate of production” means a certificate issued in accordance with regulations made under this Act permitting a producer to produce and deliver or produce and export a specified quantity of tin concentrates in a specified period;

“conveyance” means any contrivance capable of moving or being moved or transporting matter;

“goods” includes animals, birds, fish, plants and all kinds of movable property;

“mining sublease” means a sublease, whether registered or not, of mining land under any written law, and includes a subsublease and a further unregistered sublease for a period not exceeding one year;

“quota” means the quantity of tin concentrates which a producer is permitted to produce and deliver or produce and export in accordance with a certificate of production; and in relation to dealings in quota means any amount or amounts of quota over and above the estimated production of a producer or producers;

“tin concentrates” means any aggregate of minerals containing more than 4 per cent of metallic tin.

For the purpose of this Act and any regulations made thereunder tin and tin concentrates shall be deemed to be exported at the time at which such tin and tin concentrates have been weighed by the proper officer of customs for the purpose of the determination of the customs duty leviable thereon, and the expression “export”

shall unless the context otherwise requires be construed accordingly.