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Substituted by Act 15 of 2016, section 2. (iii) wild animals, wild birds, skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk cocoons, honey, wax, and all other parts or produce of animals and birds; (iv) peat, surface soil, rock and minerals (including lime stone and laterite), mineral oil and all products of mines or quarries; and (3) Such other produce as may be prescribed; (h) ‘Government’ means the State Government; 1[(hh) ‘illegally acquired property’ means in relation to any person to whom this Act applies:- (i) any property acquired by such person, wholly or partly out of or by means of any income earnings or assets derived or obtained from or attributable to illegally acquired sandal wood or Red Sanders wood or Scheduled Tree; (ii) any property acquired by such person, for a consideration or by any means, wholly or partly traceable to any property referred to in sub-clause (i) or the income or earning from such property, and includes,- (a) any property held by such person which would have been, in relation to any previous holder thereof, illegally acquired property under this clause if such previous holder had not ceased to hold it, unless such person or any other person who held the property at any time after such previous holder or, where there are two or more such previous holders, the last of such previous holder is or was a transferee in good faith for adequate consideration; (b) any property acquired by such person, for a consideration, or by any means, wholly or partly traceable to any property falling under item (a), or the income or earnings therefrom; Explanation:- for the purpose of this clause, “property” means property and assets of every description, whether corporeal or incorporeal, movable or immovable, tangible or intangible and deeds and instruments evidencing title to, or interest in, such property or assets, derived from the illegally acquired Sandal wood or Red Sanders wood or Scheduled Tree.] 2[(i) ‘Magistrate’ means a Magistrate having jurisdiction to try forest offences and includes the Assistant Sessions Judge/Additional Sessions Judge of a District Court having jurisdiction;] (j) ‘notification’ means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette; (k) ‘owner’ in relation to a forest includes a mortgagee with possession, lessee or other person having right to the possession and enjoyment of the forest; (l) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 3[(m) ‘‘Red Sanders Wood’ means the wood derived out of any part of the tree known by its Botanical name as “Pterocarpus santalinus”. and includes chips, dust of powder of such wood or articles converted into any other form or any extract derived therefrom.]