(1) The Chief Conservator of Forests, Punjab, or any other officer authorized by the State Government in this behalf may, subject to any general or special order of the State Government and after affording the licensee and opportunity of being heard, suspend or cancel and license granted under this Act.
(2) Any person aggrieved by the suspension or cancellation of a license under subsection (1) may, within thirty days of the date of order appealed against, appeal to the State Government, whose decision on such appeal shall be final.
16. No court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the Second Class shall try any offence under this Act or the rules made thereunder.
17. No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act, except on the complaint of a Forest Officer not below the rank of a Range Officer or a Police Officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector or Wild Life Officer not below the rank of an Inspector or any other person or class of persons authorized by the State Government in this behalf by notification in the official Gazette.
18. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to apply to—
(1) the killing or capturing in good faith of any wild animal by any person in defense of himself or of any other person or of property subject to such conditions as may be prescribed in the rules made in this behalf under this Act; and
(2) the capture, sale, purchase or possession for scientific or public purposes of any wild bird or wild animal by or on behalf of the authorities administering zoological gardens.
19. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence under this Act or from being liable under such other law to any higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this Act:
Provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.
20. All Wild Life Officers and other Officers exercising any of the powers conferred by or under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
21. No suit, prosecution or legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything done or intended to be done in good faith under this Act.