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Section 26

The West Bengal Wild Life Preservation Act, 1959State Act of West Bengal · Act 25 of 1959

(1) The State Government may make rules for carry- Rules, ing out the provisions of this Act.

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :—

(i) anything required to be prescribed under this Act;

(ii) the fee to be paid for any application or appeal, the period of limitation for any appeal and the procedure to be followed in appeals ;

(iii) the fee to be paid for a licence or a business certificate and the time and manner of payment of such feeS;

(iv) the management of Wild Life Sanctuaries;

(v) the conditions to be observed by persons who have been permitted to enter or reside in a Wild Life Sanctuary.

Act VIII of 1912.

27. The Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act 1912, RePeal' shall stand repealed in its application to West Bengal in the areas in which this Act comes into force.

10 The West Bengal Wild Life Preservation Act, 1959.

[West Ben. Act (The First Schedule.)

The First Schedule.

[See section 6(1).]

Animals for which the whole year may be notified as close time.

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6.

Pangolin or Scaly ant-eater Lesser Panda or Cat-bear Elephant Rhinoceroses Pygmy hog Female deer of all kinds ill anis crassicaudata Ailurus fulgens Elephas inaximus Rhinoceros Sus salvanius

7. Male deer when hornless or in velvet

8. Mouse deer .Tragulus 911eminna

9. Cheetal deer A.vix axis !0. Hog deer Axix porcinus

11. Swamp deer Cerinls duvauceli.

12. Gaur or Indian bison Bos gaurus

13. Buffalo Bubalus

14. Common Monitor or Grey laud lizard Varanus monitor

15. Yellow land lizard Varanus flavescens

16. Ringed or water lizard Varanus salvator

17. Python Python 771011ous

18. Indian egg-eating snake Elachistodon. TVestennanni

19. Indian Salamander Tylotriton verrucosus

20. Birds of prey (diurnal), except Order Falconiformes, except Accisparrow-Hawks, Fishing Eagles, Marsh-Harrier, and piter nisus, Accipiter virgatus, Haliaeetus, Ichthye-phaga, Circus Shahin and laggar Falcons aeruginosus, Falco peregrinus and Falco chiquers

21. Herons and Egrets Family Ardeidae

22. Storks, Ibises and Adjutants Family Threskiornithidae

23. Pink-headed duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea

24. White-winged Wood-duck C airin a acutulats

25. Spur-fowls Galloperdix

26. Blood-pheasant Ithaginis cruentus

27. Tragopan Tragopan satyra The West Bengal Wild Life Preservation Act, 1959. 11 XXV of 1959.]

(The First Schedule.)

28. Monal or Impeyan pheasant

29. Floricans

30. Sandgrouse

31. Owls

32. Rollers

33. Kingfishers

34. Bee-eaters

35. Hoopoes

36. Hornbills

37. Swifts

38. Barbets

39. Woodpeckers

40. Broadbills

41. Pittas

42. Larks

43. Martins and Swallows

44. Blue-bird

45. Minivets and Cuckoo-shrikes 46,. Flycatchers, Shortwings, Babblers, Laughing-thrushes, Warblers, Red-starts, Robins, Blackbird, Thrushes, Chats, W histling thrush, Fork-tails, Wrens

47. Pipits and Wagtails

48. Shrikes

49. Swallow-shrikes

50. Creepers and Nuthatches

51. Tits

52. Flowerpeckers

53. Sunbirds

54. Finches and Buntings

55. Weaver-birds and Munias

56. Orioles

57. Drongoes

58. lays, Magpies, Tree-pies, Choughs and Crows

59. The Great Indian Bustard GO. Saras Crane Lophophorus impejanus Eupodotis Pterocles exustus Family Strigidae Coracias and Eurystomus Family Alcedinidae Family Meropidae U pupa Family Bucerotid ae Family Apodidae 0 Family Capitonidae Family Picidae Serilophus and Psarisomus Pitta Family Alaudidae Family Apodidae Family Pericrocotidae Family Muscicapidae (Muscicapidae, Timaliinae, Sylviinae, Turdinae and Troglodytinae) Family Motacillidae Lanius Artamus Family Sittidae Family Paridae Family Dicaeidae Family Nectariniidae Family Fringillidae Family Ploceidae Oriolus Die Mina Family Corvidae Choriotis nigriceps.

Francolinus, Coturnix., Predicula Arborophila Lophura leucomelana Gallus gallus Pavo cristatusc Family Gruidae Family Rallidae Turviz Family Metopidae Gallinago, Scolopa,v and Rostratula Family Columbidae except Columba livia.

12 The West Bengal Wild Life .Preservation Act, 1959.

[West Ben. Act XXV of 1959.]

(The Second Schedule.)

The Second Schedule.

[See section 6(1).]

Animals for which a part of the year may be notified as close time.

1. Barking deer stags with horns not in velvet Mvntiacus muntiak

2. Sambar with horns not in velvet Cervus‘unicolor

3. Serow Capricornis sumatraensis

4. Goral Naemorhedus goral Hares Lepus and Caprolagus.

6. All kinds of geese, teals, ducks, etc., except the Pink- ' headed duck and the Whitewinged wood-duck

7. Partridges and quails

8. lialij pheasant

9. Jungle-fowl

10. Peafowl

11. Cranes (excepting Saras)

12. Rails, Crakes, Waterhens, Moorhens and Coot

13. Button-quails

14. Jacanas

15. Snipes and Woodcock, Painted snipe

1.6. All doves and pigeons except rock-pigeon W.LIGP-60/61-58A-5M Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12

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ActThe West Bengal Wild Life Preservation Act, 1959
Section26
JurisdictionState of West Bengal
StatusIn force as published by the source

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