There was a controversy whether livestock would constitute plant within the meaning of clause (3) of section 43 of the Act, that controversy has now been set at rest by the amendment of section 43(3) by the Parliament by the Finance Act, 1995 with retrospective effect from the inception of the Act, i.e., 1-4 -1962 to exclude tea bushes and livestock from the ambit of ‘plant’. 1t is now made clear in the definition of ‘plant’ in section 43(3) mentioned below
