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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) "agent" means an agent appointed under section 6; (2) "appointed day" means the 28th November, 1978 being the date on which the Gujarat Minor Forest Produce Trade Nationalisation (Second) Ordinance, 1978 came into force; (3) "authorised officer" means an officer of the State Government appointed by it, by an order published in the Official Gazette to sell, purchase or transport any minor forest produce on behalf of the State Government under the provisions of this Act, and includes an officer of the Corporation authorised by it under sub-section (3) of section 6; (4) "Code" means the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879; (5) "Committee" means the Advisory Committee constituted under subsection (7) of section 7; (6) "Corporation" means the Gujarat State Forest Development Corporation Limited formed and incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956; (7) "grower" means a person who grows any minor forest produce in the land in his possession, whether as an occupant, tenant or in any other capacity, and includes, in relation to such produce grown in any unoccupied land or any forest land or waste-land comprised in any reserved or protected forest constituted under the Indian Forest Act, 1927,- (a) where such land is leased, the lessee, and (b) where such land is not leased, the State Government; (8) "import" means to bring into the State from outside the State otherwise than across a customs frontier; (9) "minor forest produce" means any of the following classes of forest produce:- (a) timru leaves. (b) mhowra flowers. (c) mhowra fruits, seeds and doli, (d) any other class of forest produce which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a minor Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. Guj. Ord. 9 of 1978. Bom. V of