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Subs. by section 4 ibid. 166 [The Uttar Pradesh Protection of Trees in Rural and Hill Areas Act, 1976] [Section 4-5] (v) "fell a tree", with its cognate expressions, means cutting, girdling, lopping, pollarding or damaging a tree in any other manner; (vi) "Government garden" means a piece of land belonging to the Central or State Government used for growing flowers, fruit or vegetables er for planting or raising trees, and includes a grove land belonging to the Central or State Government; (vii) "hill area" means the districts of Almora, Pithoragarh, Garhwal, Chamoli, Tehri-Garhwal and Uttarkashi and the hill pattis of district NainiTal and areas of Chakarata Tahsil and Mussoorie Municipal Board of DehraDun district but does not include any Cantonment area. ; (viii) "holding" and "tenure holder" shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Uttar. Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 ; (ix) "public premises" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Uttar Pradesh Public Premises (Eviction of Un authorised Occupants) Act, 1972 ; (x) "revising authority" means an authority appointed by the State Government as revising authority under this Act ; (xi) "tree" means any woody plant whose branches spring from and are supported upon a trunk or body and whose trunk or body is not less than five centimetre in diameter at a height of thirty centimetres from the ground level and is not less than one metre in height from the ground level, and the expressions "timber trees" and "fruit trees" means respectively the trees of the species specified in Schedule I and Schedule II respectively: Provided that the State Government may by notification add to or modify the Schedules ; (xii) "urban area" means an area (not being a hill area), which is included within the limits of a Nagar Mahapalika, Municipal Board, Notified Area Committee, Town Area Committee, Cantonment Board or of a Development Authority ; (xiii) "words and expressions" used in this Act and defined in the Indian Forest Act, 1927, as amended in its application to Uttar Pradesh, but not defined in this Act shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in that Act. Restriction on felling and removal of trees