Definitions

Definitions. –

1. (1) In this Act unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or context-
   • (a) "Act" means the Bihar Wood Based Industries (Establishment and Regulation) Act, 2025,
   • (b) "Industrial Estate or Industrial Area" means areas notified by the State Government for establishment of Industries including the Wood Based Industries;
   • (c) "license" means a license granted under section 10 of this Act;
   • (d) "licensee" means any person possessing a license duly granted under

section 10 of this Act;

1. (e) "licensing officer" means a licensing officer appointed under Section 5 of this Act;
2. (f) "A person", for the purpose of this Act, means any applicant including an individual or Karta of a Hindu Undivided family or a partnership firm under the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 or a Company under the Companies Act, 2013 or a registered Co-operative Society;
3. (g) "Principal Chief Conservator of Forests" means a forest officer of the rank of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests in the State;
4. (h) "prescribed authority" means a prescribed authority appointed under

Section 6 of this Act;

1. (i) "Round log" means a piece of wood in its natural form, having mid girth of thirty centimetre or more under bark and it includes such round log even after its bark has been removed or its surface has been dressed, manually or by using a band saw or any other machine or equipment, to make its cross section square or near square for the purpose of ease in its transportation and / or storage;

1. (j) "saw mill" means a wood based industry for conversion of round logs into sawn timber;
2. (k) "Sawn Timber" means beams, scantlings, planks, battens and such other products obtained from sawing of a round log;
3. (l) "sawing and/ or Processing" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means operations of sawing, cutting, slicing, peeling, converting, fashioning or seasoning of wood and includes preservation and treatment thereof either by mechanical or chemical process with the aid of electrical or mechanical power. It shall include the act of extraction of other residues (Katha or Pulp, resin, rosin, fibre, gum etc.) from wood or any activity in which wood is utilized as a raw material.
4. (m) "Selected wood based Industry" means a wood based industry having its seniority position within the compiled seniority list at State level as determined under section 9 of this Act;
5. (n) "Non Selected wood based Industry" means a wood based industry having its seniority position beyond the compiled seniority at State Level permissible number of units as determined under section 9 of this Act;
6. (o) "State" means the State of Bihar.
7. (p) "State Level Committee or SLC" means the Committee constituted by the State Government under section 3 of this Act.
8. (q) "Vehicle" means a mechanically propelled vehicle or any vehicle drawn by human beings or by animals and includes truck, tractor, trolly, motor vehicle, boat and carts;
9. (r) "Wood" includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled and all wood of any species, except bamboos, whether cut, converted, fashioned, sawn or hollowed out for any purpose or not. "Wood Based Industry" means any industry which processes wood as its raw material (Saw Mills/ Veneer/ Plywood or any other form such as sandal, katha wood etc).
10. (t) "Charcoal" means a form of carbon derived from incomplete combustion of wood derived from a tree.
11. (u) "Composite unit" means any industry where different kinds of wood based industries are under operation.
    • (v) "Year" means a Calendar year which commences on the 1st day of January and ends on the 31st day of December of the year.

1. (2) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the