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 38I: Acquisition of animals by a zoo.
    1[38-I. Acquisition of animals by a zoo.-- (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, no zoo shall acquire, sell or transfer any wild animal or captive animal specified in S Schedules I 2*** except with the previous permission of the Authority.
     (2) No zoo shall acquire, sell or transfer any wild or captive animal except from or to a recognised zoo.]
     3Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to a conservation breeding centre.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 16 of 2003, s. 24, for section 38-I (w.e.f. 1-4-2003).
2. The word and figures "and II" omitted by Act 18 of 2022, s. 17 (w.e.f. 1-4-2023).
3. Ins. by s. 17, ibid, (w.e.f. 1-4-2023).
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