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No wild animal in respect of which any close time has been notified b y the State Government under 'section 16 of l e Wild Life Protecriun Act, 1972, shall whether dead or alive be possessed ar sold during such close time within any municipality ; and no such animal shall at any other time be sold within any municipality except under an annual licence to be granted by the committee. Provided that hcse prohibitions shalI not ex tend to w i Id animals possessed or soId as pets. 214, In making any bye-taw under any section of this Chapter. the State Government may direct that a breach or an abatement of a breach of it, shall he punishable with a firie which shall not be less than twenty- five rupees and more than two hundred rupees, and when the breach is a continuing breach, with a further fine of ten rupees for every day after the first during which the breach continues : ' 'erovidcd that B breach or an -abetment of' a breach under clause (xx) of section 200 shall be punishable with a fine which shall riot be less than two thousand five hundred rupees and more than five thousand rupees .] , . ,