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Fauna And Flora Protection (Amendment) Act (No. 49 of 1993) - Sect 17

Replacement of section 12 of the principal enactment

17. Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:
12.
(1) Save as is hereinafter provided, no person shall in any area outside a National Reserve or Sanctuary-
(a) hunt, shoot, kill, injure or take any elephant; or
(b) without a licence, in that behalf from the Director, capture any buffalo.
(2) Every licence under subsection (1) shall be issued in the prescribed form on payment of the prescribed fee and shall continue in force for such period and within such limits and may be subject to such conditions as the Director may consider necessary or expedient to insert therein for the protection and preservation of buffaloes.
(3) The holder of a licence under subsection (1) (b), shall not later than fifteen days after the expiry of the licence, return the expired licence to the Director or the prescribed officer, and intimate to him the particulars of any buffalo capture by him.".


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