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Definitions.- (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "agent" means an agent appointed under section 3; (b) "committee" means an advisory committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 6; (c) "division" means a territorial Forest Division as for the time being constituted or may be delimited, from time to time, by special or general order of the State Government; (d) "forest produce" means trees of any of the species standing, felled or otherwise fashioned, specified in the Schedule annexed to this Act and any other produce declared as such by the State Government from time to time by a notification published in the Official Gazette; (e) "owner" means any person other than the State Government authorised by virtue of ownership of land as per entries in revenue records prepared under the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1954 (6 of 1954) or by any other authority of law to own or to have in his possession the forest produce; (f) "purchase" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means the acquisition of forest produce for cash