Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -

1. (a) "appointed day" means the date of commencement of this Act;
2. (b) "forest area" includes all lands notified as forest under any law or administered as forest, whether State owned or private and whether wooded or maintained as a potential forest land;
3. (c) "licence" means a licence granted under section 7;
4. (d) "licensee" means any person to whom a licence is granted under section 7;
5. (e) "licensing officer" means a licensing officer appointed under section 3;
6. (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules;
7. (g) "rules" means rules made by the State Government under this Act;
8. (h) "saw mill" means the plant and machinery with which and the premises including the precincts thereof in which or any part of which sawing is carried on with the aid of electrical or mechanical power;
   • (i) "saw pit" means a place where wood is sawn by manually operated saws;
9. (j) "sawing" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means operation of sawing, cutting, converting, fashioning or seasoning wood and includes preservation and treatment thereof either by mechanical process with the aid of electrical or mechanical power or by manually operated saws;
10. (k) "vehicle" includes truck, tractor, trolly, motor vehicle, boat and cart;
11. (l) "wood" includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled, and all wood of any species whether cut, converted, fashioned, sawn or hallowed out for any purpose or not; and
12. (m) words and expressions used but not defined and defined in the Orissa Forest Act, 1972, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.