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after Lis previous conviction under this Actj sliall be liable to a 

 penalty not exceeding one thousand llupeeSj and, in default of 

 payment, to simple or rigorous imprisonment for a period not 

 exceeding six months. 



4. Whoever, not being* authorized thereto by a license grant- 

 ed under the provisions of Section 7, shoots at, or intentionally 

 destroys, or abets, within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, 

 the shooting at, or destruction of, any wild male elephant upon 

 ■waste or forest laud, the property of the Grovernment, shall, upon 

 a first or second conviction, be liable to the penalties and periods 

 of imprisonment respectively provided for a first or second con- 

 viction in Section 3 of this Act. 



5. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any Zemin- 

 dar or other proprietor or occupier of land, or any person duly 

 authorized in that behalf by any such Zemindar, proprietor, or 

 occupier, from destroying wild male elephants upon the waste or 

 forest lands of such Zemindar, proprietor, or occupier. 



6. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent any person 

 fi-om shooting at, or destroying any wild male or female elephant 

 found upon cultivated lands, or upon or in the immediate vicinity 

 of any public road, or to prevent any person from shooting at, or 

 destroying any male or female elephant in defence of himself or 

 any other person. 



7. The collector or other officer in charge of a district may, 

 subject to such rules as may, from time to time, be made by the 

 Local Government, issue a license to any person authorizing him 

 by name to shoot wild male elephants upon waste or forest lands, 

 the property of the Government, in such district, for the period 

 of one year from the date of the grant of such license. Every 

 such license shall become void at the expiration of the said period, 

 but may be renewed by such Collector or other officer for a like 



period. 



Provided that every such license shall become void upon the 

 conviction under this Act of the person to whom such license wad 



granted. 



8. The Local Government may make rules for regulating the 

 grant or renewal of licenses under this Act, and the fees to be 

 charged on such grant or renewal, and may, from time to time, 

 alter or cancel such rules. 



