 Reference Base  The Bengal Rhinoceros Preservation Act, 1932 - Act 8 of 1932 |
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Asia - South Asia - India - West Bengal |
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Asian Rhino Species |
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Bengal Act VIII of 1932: The Bengal Rhinoceros Preservation Act, 1932
An Act to provide for the preservation of wild rhinoceros.
Whereas it is expedient to provide for the preservation of wild rhinoceros in Negal; It is hereby enacted as follows:
Short title and extent.
1 (1). This Act may be called the Bengal Rhinoceros Preservation Act, 1932
1 (2). It extends to the whole of Bengal.
Killing, injuring or capturing of wild rhinoceros prohibited
2. No person shall kill, injure, or capture, or attempt to kill, injure, or capture, a wild rhinoceros, unless -
(a) in defence of himself or some other person; or
(b) with the permision of the Local Government given in a license issued under rules to be made in this behalf by the local Government.
Penalty for contravening Section 2.
3. (1) Whoever in contravention of section 2, kills, injures or captures, or attempts to kill, injure, or capture, a wild rhinoceros, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
3 (2). Whoever having been convicted of an offence under sub-section (1) of this ection, is again covicted of an offence thereunder shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or with both.
Rhinoceros killed or captured to be property of Government
4. Every wild rhinoceros killed or captured by any person otherwise than with the permission of the Local Government given under secytion 2, and all parts of such rhinoceros shall be the property of the Local Government.
Duty to report killing, injuring, or capturing a rhinoceros
5. In the event of any person killing, injuring, or capturing a wild rhinoceros in defence of himself or of some other person, he shall within three days of such event report the fact in writing to the officer-in-charge of the nearest police station or to the Forest officer or the District or Subdivisional magistrate within whose jurisdiction the event took place.
Penalty for contravention of Section 5
6. Wehoever without reasonable excuse omits to make the report referred to in section 5 shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
Amendment of Act VIII of 1912
7. The Wild Birds and Animals protection Act, 1912, shall, in its application to Bengal, be amended as follows namely: - In clause (ii) of the Schedule of the said Act the word “rhinoceros” shall be omitted.
This Bill was passed by the Bengal Legislative Council on the 1 st day of April, 1932,
signed M.N. Ray Chaudhuri, President.
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