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CHAPTER V TRADE OR COMMERCE IN WILD ANIMALS, ANIMAL ARTICLES AND TROPHIES

Section 49: Purchase of captive animal, etc., by a person other than a licensee

The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972

No person shall purchase, receive or acquire any captive animal, wild animal, other than vermin, or any animal article, trophy, uncured trophy or meat derived therefrom otherwise than from a dealer or from a person authorised to sell or otherwise transfer the same under this Act:

1[Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to a recognised zoo subject to the provisions of section 38-I or to a public museum.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by s. 32, ibid., for the proviso (w.e.f. 2-10-1991).

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