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 23: Powers of Collector.
    For the purpose of such inquiry, the Collector may exercise the following powers, namely:--
         (a) the power to enter in or upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same or to authorise any other officer to do so;
         (b) the same powers as are vested in a civil court for the trial of suits.
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