4. Section 2 of the principal enactment is hereby Amended as follows :-
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) thereof and subtitution therefor. of the following subsection:- |
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| "(1) It shall be the duty of the Director-General to cause, surveys and investigations to be made for the purposes of ascertaining the nature and extent of land degradation due to various factors including floods, droughts, salinisation, desertification, siltation and soil erosion and of enabling the Minister to determine the areas which should be declared under this Act to be conservation areas"; |
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| (2) by the substitution for the words "Soil erosion", in the marginal note thereto of the words "Land degradation,". |
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