Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--

1. (1) "animal" includes--
   • (a) all form of animal life from the protozoans to the most advanced vertebrates;
   • (b) amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles and their youngs;
   • (c) in the cases of amphibians, birds and reptiles, their eggs;
2. (2) "animal article" means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used;
3. (3) "big game" means any animal specified in Schedule III;
4. (4) "Board" means Wild Life Advisory Board constituted under sub-section
5. (1) of section 5;
6. (5) "captive animal" means any animal specified in Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule III or Schedule IV, which is captured or kept or bred in captivity;
7. (6) "cattle" includes elephants, camels, buffaloes, bullocks, bulls, cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, horses, mules and pigs;
8. (7) "Chief Wild Life Warden" means the person appointed as such under clause
   • (a) of sub-section
9. (1) of section 3;
10. (8) "closed area" means the area which is declared under sub-section
11. (1) of section 37 to be closed to hunting;
12. (9) "Collector" means the chief officer in charge of the revenue administration of a district or any officer appointed by the Government under the Land Revenue Act, Samvat 1996;
13. (10) "dealer" means any person who carries on the business of buying and selling any captive animal, animal article, trophy, uncured trophy or meat under a licence;
14. (11) "game reserve" means an area declared under section 36 to be a game reserve;
15. (12) "Government property" means any property, or any wild animal, animal article, trophy, or uncured trophy, or meat which has become Government property under section 38;
16. (13) "habitat" includes any land, water or vegetation which is the natural habitat of any wild animal;
17. (14) "hunting", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes--
    • (a) capturing, killing, poisoning, snaring and trapping of any wild animal and every attempt to do so;
    • (b) driving any wild animal for any of the purposes specified in sub-clause (a);
    • (c) injuring or destroying or taking any body part of any such animal or, in the case of wild birds or reptiles, damaging the eggs of such birds or reptiles, or disturbing the eggs or nests of such birds or reptiles;
18. (15) "land" includes canals, creeks and other water channels, reservoirs, rivers, streams and lakes whether artificial or natural, boulders and rocks;
19. (16) "licence" means a licence granted under this Act or any rule made thereunder;
20. (17) "manufacturer" means a manufacturer of animal articles;
21. (18) "meat" includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, fat and flesh whether raw or cooked, of any wild animal other than vermin;
22. (19) "National Park" means an area declared under section 35 as a National Park;
23. (20) "permit" means a permit granted under this Act or any rule made thereunder;
24. (21) "person" includes a firm;
25. (22) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
26. (23) "royalty" means charges to be paid by the licensee for wild animal hunting;
27. (24) "sanctuary" means an area declared under section 17 as a Wild Life sanctuary;
28. (25) "small game" means any animal specified in Schedule IV;
29. (26) "special game" means any animal specified in Schedule II;
30. (27) "taxidermy" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the curing, preparation or preservation of trophies;
31. (28) "transporter" includes a person, a private agency, a Government Department, Corporation or any other agency engaged in the transport of goods whether on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person;
32. (29) "trophy" means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has been kept or preserved by any means whether artificial or natural, and includes--
    • (a) rugs, skins and specimens of such animals mounted in whole or in part through a process of taxidermy; and
    • (b) antler, horn, rhinoceros horn, hair, feather, nail, tooth, musk, eggs and nests;
33. (30) "uncured trophy" means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has not undergone a process of taxidermy and includes a freshly killed wild animal;
34. (31) "vehicle" means any conveyance used for movement on land, water or air and includes buffalo, bull, bullock, camel, donkey, elephant, horse and mule;
35. (32) "vermin" means any wild animal specified in Schedule V;
36. (33) "weapon" includes ammunition, bows, arrows, explosives, firearms, hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares, traps and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal;
37. (34) "wild animal" means any animal specified in Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV or Schedule V, wherever found;
38. (35) "wild life" includes any form of uncultivated flora and fauna;
39. (36) "Wild Life Warden" means the person appointed as such under clause
    • (b) of sub-section
40. (1) of section 3.