Notification regarding decision to declare any areas National or State Park

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Statutory text

(1) Whenever on the advice of the Advisory Committee or otherwise, it appears to the State Government in respect of any area that by reason of its floral, faunal, scenic or other interest of natural beauty or its educational, scientific, archaeological, historical or geological association or importance, it is desirable to take measures for the purpose of preserving, protecting, developing or enhancing the natural beauty or importance of the area, and for providing facilities for the enjoyment of persons resorting thereto, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that it has been decided to constitute such area to be a National Park or a State Park, as the case may be.
(2) The notification shall—
- (a) describe, as nearly as possible the situation and limits of the area ; and
- (b) appoint an officer to be the competent authority, and direct him to inquire into and determine the existence, nature and extent of any rights alleged to exist in favour of any person in or over any land comprised within such limits, and to deal with the same as provided in this Act. Explanation.—For the purposes of clause (a), it shall be sufficient to describe the limits of the area by roads, brivers, ridges or other well known or readily intelligible boundaries.

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