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BALUCHISTAN WILDLIFE PROTECTION ACT, 1974 BALUCHISTAN WILDLIFE PROTECTION ACT, 1974 ACT XIX OF 1974 An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to preservation, conservation and management of wildlife in Baluchistan [Gazette of Baluchistan, Extraordinary, 21st August 1974] No. Legis-X-(17)/74.----The Baluchistan Wildlife Protection Bill, 1974 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Baluchistan on 22nd July 1974 and assented to the Governor of Baluchistan, is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Assembly. 33. Power to compound offence.----(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, empower any officer appointed under this Act- (a) to accept from any person against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed any offence under this Act, a sum of money by way of compensation for the offence which such person is suspected to have committed ; and (b) when any property has been seized as liable to confiscation, to release the same on payment of the value thereof, as estimated by such officer. (2) On the payment of compensation such sum of money, or such value of property under subsection (1) or both, as the case may be, the suspected person if in custody, shall be discharged and the property, if any, seized shall be released and no further proceedings shall be taken against such person or property. (3) The sum of money accepted as compensation under clause (a) of subsection (1) shall in no case exceed the sum of five hundred rupees. (4) No officer shall have power to compound a second and subsequent offence under this Act.