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ACT XIV OF 2014 ACT XIV OF 2014 BALOCHISTAN WILDLIFE (PROTECTION, PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT) ACT, 2014 An Act to provide protection, preservation, conservation, sustainable and management to the Wildlife, and establishment and management of protection areas in the Province of Balochistan. [Gazette of Balochistan, Extraordinary, 28th March, 2014] CHAPTER VII PROTECTED AREAS 37. Game Reserve.---(1) The Government may designate and manage any State owned area of land inhabited by game animals as Game Reserve for sustainable use, where hunting of game animals may be allowed only under a special permit to be granted by an authorized officer on receipt of such fee as prescribed, and subject to hunting restrictions contained in section 16, conditions of employment of hawks and dogs contained in section 18, and other conditions that the Department may specify in the special permit: Provided that no special permit shall be granted to any person beyond the limit of sustainable use of the species of any game animal in a Game Reserve, based on proper periodic counts of the game animals for assessing the level of sustainable use. (2) A special permit shall specify the kind and number of game animals that can be hunted, hunting area, method of hunting, and the period for which the special permit is valid. (3) The officer authorized in this behalf shall take measures for management, maintenance and improvement of habitat and building up populations of harvestable sized game animals in a Game Reserve. (4) The Government may allow the traditional uses, if un-harmful, or readjust the rights of the local communities, with consent in such a manner as appropriate but shall not allow multiplication and perpetuation of rights or concessions. (5) The following acts shall be prohibited in a Game Reserve: (a) trapping or capturing of any game animal; (b) hunting of any game animal other than that specified on the special license or permit; (c) hunting of any game animal without a valid hunting permit as prescribed; (d) residing without authorization; (e) undertake without authorization mining, stone quarrying, blasting, stone crushing and oil and gas exploration and exploitation; and (f) picnicking and leaving food or other solid waste. (6) In a Game Reserve, no person shall do any act which is prohibited in subsection (5) above, section 16, section 18 and section 34 (8).