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 62: Declaration of certain wild animals to be vermin.
    1[The Central Government] may, by notification, declare any wild animal 2[specified in Schedule II] to be vermin for any area and for such period as may be specified therein and so long as such notification is in force, such wild animal shall be 3[deemed not to be included in Schedule II for such area and for such period as specified in the notification].
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 44 of 1991, s. 45, for certain words (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).
2. Subs. by Act 18 of 2022, s. 38, for "other than those specified in Schedule I and Part II of Schedule II" (w.e.f. 1-4-2023).
3. Subs. by s. 38, ibid., for "deemed to have been included in Schedule V" (w.e.f. 1-4-2023).
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