(1) This Act may be called the Orissa Saw Mills and Saw Pits (Control) Act, 1991.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Orissa.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different areas of the State and any reference in this Act to the commencement of this Act shall in relation to an area, be construed as a reference to the coming into force of this Act in that area.
2. "In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,"
(a) appointed day means the date of commencement of this Act;
(b) forest area includes all lands notified as forest under any law or administered as forest, whether State owned or private and whether wooded or maintained as a potential forest land;
(c) licence means a licence granted under Sec. 7;
(d) licensee means any person to whom a licence is granted under Sec. 7;
(e) licensing officer means a licensing officer appointed under Sec. 3;
* Published vide Orissa Gazette, Extraordinary No. 1500-D/13.12.1991 For statement of objects and reasons see Orissa Gazette, Extra Ordinary, dated the 26th February 1991, (No.230) The Odisha Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. Date : 4th June 1991 Short title, Extent and Commencement:
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(f) prescribed means prescribed by Rules;
(g) Rules means Rules made by the State Government under this Act;
(h) saw mill means the plant and machinery with which and the premises including the precincts thereof in which or in any part of which sawing is carried on with the aid of electrical or mechanical power;
(i) saw pit means a place where wood is sawn by manually operated saws;
(j) sawing with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means operation of sawing, cutting; converting, fashioning or seasoning wood and includes preservation and treatment thereof either by mechanical process with the aid of electrical or mechanical power or by manually operated saws;
(k) vehicle includes truck, tractor, trolly, motor vehicle, boat and cart;
(l) wood includes trees when they have fallen or have been felled, and all woods of any specific whether cut, converted, fashioned, sawn or hollowed out for any purpose or not; and
(m) words and expressions used but not defined and defined, in the Orissa Forest Act,14 of 1972, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.
3.
(a) appoint any officer not below the rank of Divisional Forest Officer to be Licensing Officer for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) define the local limits within which a Licensing Officer shall exercise powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, on a Licensing Officer by or under this Act.