Power to grant exemptions

[(1)] The State Government may, by general or special order and subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, exempt from the operation of this Act the slaughter of any male or female buffalo or the possession of flesh thereof for any religious, medical or research purposes. [(2) The State Government may, by notification, delegate to any officer, not below the rank of a Collector, all or any of its powers under sub-section (1).]