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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 38. Private Game Reserve.---(1) Where the Government is satisfied that an area of land in private ownership supports sizable population of game animals or has the potential of increasing the number of game animals to harvestable level, designate it as a Private Game Reserve, on receipt of a formal request from a single owner or 80% of the owners of any jointly owned area, for managing and using it sustainably for hunting of game animals found or re-introduced therein. (2) The owner shall manage and use the Private Game Reserve sustainably in accordance with a management plan endorsed by the authorized officer. (3) The Department shall support the owner technically in managing the Private Game Reserve on sound scientific basis. (4) Appropriate powers shall be vested in the owner to facilitate management and wardening of the Private Game Reserve. (5) Hunting of wild animals, in a Private Game Reserve, shall not be allowed except under a Private Permit, issued by the owner or owners with intimation to the authorized officer in this regard and in accordance with the Rules. The number of such permits for any game species in the Private Game Reserve for a season shall be mutually decided by the owner and the authorized officer. (6) The fee for a Private Permit charged by the owner of a Private Game Reserve for any game animal shall in no case be less than the amount fixed by the Government for hunting of animal of the same species in a Game Reserve. (7) The owner shall be entitled to all income derived from hunting therein or from other sustainable uses of the Private Game Reserve provided that at least 20% of the gross income from a Private Game Reserve shall be spent by the owner on the improvement and development of the Private Game Reserve. (8) The owner shall prepare a management plan of the Private Game Reserve, in consultation with the authorized officer, and shall implement it. (9) All other provisions contained in section 34 (8) and section 37 relating to Protected Areas and game animals in a Game Reserve respectively shall apply to a Private Game Reserve mutatis mutandis. (10) The Government may at any time, by notification in the official Gazette, de-notify a Private Game Reserve, after seeking explanation in writing if-- (a) the Private Game Reserve has degraded to a stage that it is not likely to recover for achieving the objectives of its establishment; and (b) the owner has violated grossly the provisions of subsection (2) above.