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Onus of Proof
Act: Balochistan Wildlife (Protection Preservation Conservation and Management) Act 2014
Section Provisions
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 XIV TRIAL OF OFFENCE CASES 90. Onus of Proof.---(1). When in any proceedings taken or in consequence of anything done under this Act, a question arises as to whether any specimen of wild animal is the property of the Government; such property shall be deemed to be the property of the Government, until the contrary is proved. (2) When any offence takes place at a time and a place that nobody could have witnessed, the onus of proof of not committing such an offence shall lie on the accused.