Title : Elephants Preservation Act, 1879
State : Central
Year : 1879
THE ELEPHANTS PRESERVATION ACT, 1879 [Act, No. 6 of 1879] [22nd March, 1879] PREAMBLE An Act for the preservation of wild elephants. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the preservation of wild elephants; It is hereby enacted as follows-- View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Repeal
State : Central
Year : 1879
Repealed By the Repealing and Amending Act, 1930 (8 of 1930), section 3 and Schedule II. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Killing and Capture of Wild Elephants Prohibited
State : Central
Year : 1879
No person shall kill, injure or capture, or attempt to kill, injure or capture, any wild elephant unless (a) in defence of himself or some other person; (b) when such elephant is found injuring houses or cultivation, or upon, or in the immediate vicinity of, any main public road or any railway or canal ; or (c) as permitted by a license granted under this Act. [Substituted by Act 2 of 1883, for the original section.] View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Rights of Government with Respect to Certain Elephants and Tusks
State : Central
Year : 1879
Every wild elephant captured, and the tusks of every wild elephant killed, by any person not licensed under this Act, shall be the property of Government.] View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : License to Kill and Capture Wild Elephants
State : Central
Year : 1879
The collector or Deputy Commissioner of any district may, subject to such rules as may for the time being be in force under this Act, grant licenses to kill, or to capture, or to kill and capture, wild elephants in such district: Provided that no such license shall authorize any person to enter upon any land without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Power of State Government to Declare What Are Main Roads and Canals, and to Make Rules as to Licences
State : Central
Year : 1879
The State Government may from time to time [The words '' subject to the control of the G.G.in C.'' repealed by Act 38 of 1920, section 2 and Schedule I.] declare what shall be deemed to be main public roads and canals within the meaning of this Act, and make rules consistent with this Act for regulating (a) the grant and renewal of licenses under this Act, (b) the fees (if any) in money, tusks or captured elephants to be charged on such grant and renewal; (c) the time during which such licenses shall continue in force. (d) the conditions (if any) on which they shall be granted. All such declarations and rules shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon have the force of law. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty for Contravening Section 3
State : Central
Year : 1879
Whoever, in contravention of section 3, kills, injures or captures, or attempts to kill, injure or capture, any wild elephant, shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for each elephant concerned; and whoever breaks any condition contained in a license granted under this Act shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. Any person convicted of a second offence under this section shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. When any person holding a license under this Act is convicted under this section, such license shall become void and shall be delivered up to the convicting Magistrate. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : License to Be Produced and Shown on Requisition of Certain Officers
State : Central
Year : 1879
Any officer of Revenue of Police, or any Forest-officer, who may find any person killing, injuring or capturing, or attempting to kill, injure or capture, any wild elephant, except in the cases mentioned in section 3, clauses (a) and (b) , may require him to produce and show a license granted to him under this Act. Any person who, on such request, willfully refuses or is unable to produce and show such license as aforesaid, shall, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable under this Act, be punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Limitation of Prosecution
State : Central
Year : 1879
Every prosecution under this Act shall be commenced within six months from the commission of the offence in respect of which it is instituted. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recovery of Fees
State : Central
Year : 1879
The amount or value of any fee payable under any license granted under this Act may be recovered from the licensee as if it were an arrear of land-revenue. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section