LawgistThe Wild Life (Protection) Act
17BGrants 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.]
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1. Ins. by Act 44 of 1991, s. 13 (w.e.f. 20-4-1995).
PROTECTION OF SPECIFIED PLANTS
- 17A Prohibition of picking, uprooting, etc. of specified plant
- 17B Grants of permit for special purposes
- 17C Cultivation of specified plants without licence prohibited
- 17D Dealing in specified plants without licence prohibited
- 17E Declaration of stock
- 17F Possession, etc., of plants by license
- 17G Purchase, etc., of specified plants
- 17H Plants to be Government property
