Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(I) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions ot this Act, the Government may, at any time, declare, by notillcation, the whole or part of an urban arm, to be a. prohibited area, if it deems flt so to do in the public interest. (2) On and after thidate of such declaration,- (a) no licence shall be granted in the prohibited area and every licence alreaay granted and in force in the prohibited area shall stand cancelled on the expiry of six months from the said date or on the expiry of the remaining period of the lioence, whichever is earlier ; and the person concerned shall remove trom the prohibited area all his notified animals and birds, within the said period of six months or tho said remaining period, as the cs se may be ; and (b) no notifled animal or bird shall be ' brought into or kept in the pxohibibd area : Provided that any notifled animal or bud may be- (i) allowed to pass through the prohibited area in the course of their journey to-any outside area ; or (ii) brought into the prohibited area for such other purposes as may be prescribed, in accordance with tbe permit granted by the Licensir.g OBcer in such form and in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed. (3) Notwithstanding allything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), the Government may, at any time, in the public interest, by notiflcation, rescind any notification issued under sub-section (1), in respect of the whole or any part of the area specified in that notiflcation and may, at any time by like notification issued under sub-section(l), redeclare that area or part thereof as a prohibited area from a date specifled in such subsequent notification.