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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 XI POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS 77. Disposal of Case Property.---(1) The authorized officer after, consultation with the province of origin in Pakistan or the CITES Management Authority and/or CITES Scientific Authority, may return the confiscated specimen to the province of origin or the country of export or origin; or may gift or sell to any zoo or zoo like facility in the country or abroad on such conditions as deemed fit. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the officer or any other person authorized in this behalf may set free in the wild any live wild animal or sell or dispose it off and any part, product or derivative seized under sections 25, 33 and 76; and may, subject to the determination of the rights thereto, deal with the proceeds in such a manner as deemed fit. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law, any person authorized in this behalf may sell any property, subject to speedy and natural decay, seized under sections 25, 33 and 76 and may deal with the proceeds as he would have dealt with such property if it had not been sold.