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Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “drift” includes timber or other floating matter, whether the same is in the possession or under the control of any person or not; (b) “goods” include wares and merchandise of every description and also vehicles, animals, packages and other articles; 5 (c) “notification” means a notification published in the official Gazette; (d) “owner” when used in relation to goods or drift includes any consignor, consignee, shipper, or agent for the sale, custody, landing, or shipping of such goods or drift; (e) “passenger” means any person not below the age of three years carried in a vessel, other than the master and crew and the owner, his family and his servants; (f) “port” means the area included within the limits of a port to which all or any of the provisions of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 (Central Act XV of 1908) are for the time being applicable other than a major port; (g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) “vessel” includes anything made for the conveyance mainly by water of human beings or property.