Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "beef" means flesh of cow in any form including flesh of cow contained in sealed containers and imported in the State; (b) "beef-products" means products prepared from beef; (c) "cow" means and includes a bull, bullock, ox, heifer or calf and a disabled, diseased or barren cow; (d) "competent authority" means the concerned Sub-divisional Magistrate and includes any other officer appointed by the Government for exercising the powers under this Act; (e) "Department" means the Animal Husbandry Department of the Government; (f) "export" means taking out of cow from the State to any other place; (g) "Gauvansh" means cow or its progeny; (h) "Gausamvardhan" means conservation and development of indigenous breeds of cow; (i) "Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana in the administrative department; (j) "indigenous breed" means the indigenous cow population which is recognized as a breed by Breed Registration Committee of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, from time to time; (k) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act; (l) "sanrakshan" means protection and conservation of Gauvansh; (m) "slaughter" means killing by any method whatsoever and includes maiming and inflicting of physical injury which in the ordinary course may cause death; (n) "State" means the State of Haryana. In section 2 of the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act, 2015 (hereinafter called the principal Act),- (i) for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- „(a) “beef” means flesh of cow in any form including in sealed container;‟; (ii) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- „(c) “cow” means cow and its progeny (any economic or uneconomic) including bull, bullock, ox, heifer or calf whether disabled, diseased or barren;‟; (iii) for clause (e), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- „(e) “department” means the Animal Husbandry and Dairying Department, Haryana; (iv) in clause (n),- (A) for the sign “.”, existing at the end, the sign “;” shall be substituted; and (B) after clause (n), the following clause shall be added, namely:- „(o) “Vehicle” means a conveyance used for transportation of people, livestock or goods, specially on land, such as two-wheeler, car, tractor trolley, lorry, any carrier or cart.‟.