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 61: Power to alter entries in Schedules
    (1) The Central Government may, if it is of opinion that it is expedient so to do, by notification, 1[ 2[amend any Schedule or add] or delete any entry to or from any Schedule] or transfer any entry from one Part of a Schedule to another Part of the same Schedule or from one Schedule to another.
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     (3) On the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), 4*** the relevant Schedule shall be deemed to be altered accordingly, provided that every such alteration shall be without prejudice to anything done or omitted to be done before such alteration.
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     Provided that any such alteration made by the State Government, if it has been made with the previous consent of the Central Government, shall prevail in that State:
     Provided further that nothing in the foregoing proviso shall prevent the Central Government from modifying or cancelling, at any time, the alteration made by the State Government.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 44 of 1991, s. 44, for "add any entry to any Schedule" (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).
2. Subs. by Act 18 of 2022, s. 37, for "add" (w.e.f. 1-4-2023).
3. Sub-section (2) omitted by s. 44, ibid. (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).
4. The words brackets and figure "or sub-section (2)" omitted by Act 44 of 1991, s. 44 (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).
5. Sub-section (4) omitted by s. 44, ibid. (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).

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