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Defwitions.-In this Act, and in all rules made thereunder, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) " Cattle" means cows, oxen and bulls and includes elephants, camels, buffaloes, horses, mares, geldmgs, pomes, colts, fiiiies, mules, asses, p.gs, rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats, kids and fowls and such other kmds of ammals as the Government may, by notification m the Gazette specify ; (b) "Collector" means the Chief Revenue Officer of a Disti ict and includes an actmg or officiatmg Collector, and also any Officer appointed by the Government to exercise the funct10ns of the Collector; (c) " Forest 08cer" means any person appointed by name or as holdmg an office by or unaer the orders of the Government to be a ChiefConseivator, a Conservator, Deputy Conservator, Assistant Con- servator, Divisional Forest Officer, Ranger, Deputy Ranger, Forester, a Timber Depot Officer, Forest Guard, Forest PlantatiOn Maistry, \Vatcher, Game Warden, Assistant Game Warden, Game Ranger, Game Fore~ter, Game Guard, or to discharge any functiOn of a Forest Officer under this Act or any rule made thereunder ; ----- 0 Pubhshed in the Gazette Extraordmary, dated the 18th day of January 1962. -------- ------------ ~-- • • 19 (d) " Divisional Forest Officer " means the Chief Forest Officer of a Forest Division or a portion or portions of one or more Divisions, if in independent charge of such port1on or portions, when they are constituted into a Forest DiviSion ; (e) "-Forest Offence" means an offence punishable u~der this Act or any rule made thereunder ; (f) "Forest Produce " includes the following when found in oa· brought from, a forest, that is to say.- . (z) trees and leaves, flowers and fruits and all other parts or produce of trees, and charcoal, (u) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss) and all other parts or produce of such plants, (m) wild animals and skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk cocoons, honey and wax and all other parts or produce of animals, (w) peat, surface soil, rock and minerals (mcludmg limestone and latente), mineral oils and all produce of mines and minerals ; (g) " Land at the disposal of Government" includes all unoc- cupied land, all temporarily occupied land and all land occupied with- out permission, whether assessed or unassessed ; but does not include land, the property of land holders such as Jcnmies, Devaswoms, or holders of Inam lands; also all holdmgs of land m any way subject to the payment of land revenue d1rect to Government and all other registered holdmgs of land m proprietary right ; (h) " Magistrate " means a Magistrate of the First or Second Class and mcludes a Magistrate of the Third Class when he is specially empowered by Government to try forest offences ; (z) "River" includes streams, canals, backwaters, creeks and other channels, natUI al or artlfic~al ; (J) " State " means the State of Kerala ; (k) " Timber " includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled, and all wood, whether cut up or fashioned or hollowed out for any purpose or not ; and (l) "Tree" mcludes palms, bamboo~, stumps, burshwood and canes. CHAPTER II Reserved Forests