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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 X COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION 65. Economic Incentives and Benefit Sharing.---(1) The Government will provide economic incentives to and share benefits accruing from wildlife, biodiversity and Protected Areas with the local communities involved in their management, through their organizations registered with the Government. (2) On recognition under section 64 (3) (i), a community organization shall be entitled to equitable share, as may be prescribed, in benefits that may accrue from sustainable management of wildlife, biodiversity and other natural resources in a Protected Area owned by the Government, if it is managed by the community wholly or partially. (3) A local community shall be entitled to receive and use the entire gross income (after deducting expenses) from a Community Game Reserve or which is owned or managed by it. However, the community will have to plough back at least 40 percent of the gross income 20/20 percent for improvement of that area and deposition of Government Revenue. (4) The owner of a Private Game Reserve shall be entitled to receive and use the entire gross income (after deducting expenses) from a Private Game Reserve, which is owned or managed by him. However, he will have to plough back at least 20 percent of the gross income for improvement of the Private Game Reserve. (5) The Government may make Rules to elaborate and implement the provisions of this section in entirety.