(1) Any person desiring to obtain a licence shall apply to the Divisional Wild Life Preservation Officer concerned.
(2) Upon the receipt of such application, the Divisional Wild Life Preservation Officer shall, after making such enquiries, if any, as he deems necessary, either grant or refuse such licence.
(3), Where the Divisional Wild Life Preservation Officer refuses to grant a licence to any person, he shall record in writing the reasons for such refusal and furnish to the person on request a brief statement of the same unless in any case he records his opinion that it will not be in the public interest to furnish such statement.
(4) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a licence may appeal within thirty days of the date of the order and in the prescribed manner to the Regional Wild Life Preservation Officer concerned. No such appeal shall be disposed of unless the appellant has been given an opportunity of being heard. An order passed in appeal shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), be final and conclusive.
(5) The Chief Wild Life Preservation Officer may, on his own motion or on the motion of any person aggrieved, at any time revise any order passed under sub-section (4) and his order on such revision shall be final and conclusive :
Provided that no order shall be passed in revision which adversely affects any person unless such person has been given an opportunity of being heard.
(6) The fee for a licence shall be as may be prescribed.
9.. (1) Every licence granted under this chapter shall be valid for such period as may be prescribed.
(2) The Divisional Wild Life Preservation Officer may, at any time, if he is satisfied that the holder of a licence has failed to comply with the conditions specified in the licence, cancel such licence, after giving the holder an opportunity of being heard. Where a licence is cancelled as aforesaid, any person aggrieved shall have the same right of appeal and revision as if the licence had been refused.