/501 Statement of Objects and Reasons

Killing and capture of wild elephants prohibited .-No person shall kill, injure or capture, or attempt to kill, injure or capture, any wild elephant unless

License to kill and capture wild elephants .-The Collector or Deputy Commissioner of any district may, subject to such rules as may for the time being be in force under this Act, grant licenses to kill, or to capture or to kill and capture wild elephants in such district:

Power of State Government to declare what are main roads and canals, and to make rules as to licenses .-The State Government may from time to time [* * *] declare what shall be deemed to be main public roads and canals within the meaning of this Act, and make rules consistent with this Act for regulating

Penalty for contravening section 3.-Whoever, in contravention of section 3, kills, injures or captures, or attempts to kill, injure or capture, any wild elephant, shall be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for each elephant concerned;