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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 XIII MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES 85. Duty to Help in Detection and Prosecution of Offence.---Any worker or a person living in a protected area or collecting natural resources including wood, fish, wild animal, plant, mineral, water or grazing livestock, mining, police man, village headman, chairman or member of Union Council and all Government servants working in a Protected Area at any time shall be bound, in the absence of reasonable excuse, to-- (a) give to any officer or any person authorized in this behalf by Government information in respect of any snaring, killing, trapping, netting, unauthorized hunting, transport, transfer and trade of specimens of wild animals or any other offence under this Act committed within the limits of jurisdiction of such person or place of work or residence, as soon as the commission of such offence comes to his knowledge; (b) help the wildlife, Protected Area or forest staff or any other authorized person in apprehending the offender, taking in possession the case property; and (c) appear as witness during the trial of case by the court.