Act Number: 53

Act Name: The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-09-09

Long Title: An Act to provide for the protection of wild animals, birds and plants and for matters connected therewith or ancillary or incidental thereto with a view to ensuring the ecological and environmental security of the country.

Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Department:

Section 17B: Grants of permit for special purposes.
    1[17B. Grants of permit for special purposes.-- The Chief Wild Life Warden may, with the previous permission of the State Government, grant to any person a permit to pick, uproot, acquire or collect from a forest land or the area specified under section 17A or transport, subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, any specified plant for the purpose of--
         (a) education;
         (b) scientific research;
         (c) collection, preservation and display in a herbarium of any scientific institution; or
         (d) propagation by a person or an institution approved by the Central Government in this regard.]
    
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 44 of 1991, s. 13 (w.e.f. 20-4-1995).
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