5. Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:
| (1) in subsection (1) of that section by the repeal of paragraphs (a) and (c) thereof and the substitution therefor, of the following paragraphs:
| | " (a) no person shall be entitled to enter any Strict Natural Reserve or Nature Reserve, or in any way to disturb the fauna and flora therein; | | |
| | (c) no animal shall be hunted, killed or taken, and no plant shall be damaged, collected or destroyed in a Strict Natural Reserve destroyed, in a Strict Natural Reserve, | | |
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| (2) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section; |
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| (3) in subsection (3) of that section, by the substitution, for all the words from " Nature Reserve or Jungle Corridor'' to the end of that subsection, of the words " Nature Reserve, or in or over any State land in any Sanctuary, being a right which was so acquired by such person prior to the date of the establishment of such Nature Reserve or Sanctuary. " ; and |
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| (4) in the marginal note to that section, by the substitution for the words " Intermediate Zones, and Sanctuaries", of the words " Refuges, Marine Reserves, Buffer Zones and Sanctuaries.". |
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