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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 39. Community Game Reserve.---(1) Where the Government is satisfied that an area of land owned de-jure or de-facto by a local community supports sizable population of game animals or has the potential of increasing the number of game animals with management to harvestable level, may designate it as a Community Game Reserve, on receipt of formal request signed and submitted by at least 80% of the households of that community for managing and using it sustainably for hunting of game animals found therein. (2) The owner or the user community of the Community Game Reserve shall manage and use it sustainably through a village conservation committee or a similar structure in accordance with a management plan endorsed by the authorized officer. (3) The owner or user community of a Community Game Reserve shall be entitled to use up to 60% of net income from the Community Game Reserve, derived after deducting the management related expenses, for its collective needs. After deducting the 60% share of the Community, the balance amount shall distribute on fifty / fifty basis to be spent on improving the Community Game Reserve and deposition of revenue in Government treasury. (4) The Department shall support the community technically in managing the Community Game Reserve on sound scientific basis in such a manner as deemed fit. (5) The Department shall delegate appropriate powers to the representatives of the community, nominated by the village conservation committee or a similar structure, to facilitate management of the Community Game Reserve. (6) The Government may at any time, by notification in the official Gazette, de-notify a Community Game Reserve, after seeking explanation in writing if-- (a) the Community Game Reserve has degraded to a stage that it is not likely to recover for meeting the objectives of its establishment; and (b) the community has grossly violated the provisions of sub- section (2) above. (7) 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 Community Game Reserve mutatis mutandis.