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Section 3 — Certain persons not to undertake Biodiversity related activities without approval of National Biodiversity Authority

Section 3

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Summary

Bars non-citizens, non-resident Indians, and bodies corporate, associations or organisations incorporated or registered outside India — or controlled by a foreigner — from obtaining an Indian biological resource or associated knowledge for research, commercial utilisation, bio-survey or bio-utilisation without the National Biodiversity Authority's previous approval.

Record details

Act number: 18 of 2003
Jurisdiction: India (Union)
Source record: India Code 123456789/496021 — a2003-18.pdf
Locator: Section 3

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The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 — India Code consolidated text (incorporating Act 10 of 2023)
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Official documentSection 3Record India Code 123456789/496021 — a2003-18.pdf
“3. Certain persons not to undertake Biodiversity related activities without approval of National Biodiversity Authority.”
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Fetched from India Code on 24 October 2026. The PDF is the consolidated Act incorporating the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023 (10 of 2023), w.e.f. 1 April 2024. Section headings, text and footnote amendment references are taken from it; the provisions have not had a separate legal review.

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Section 58 was omitted by the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023 (10 of 2023), s. 39, w.e.f. 1 April 2024, and is not carried as an empty record. Section heading and summary derived from the official text; not separately reviewed. The Act is covered in full. The foreign-control test in section 3(2)(c)(ii) was substituted by Act 10 of 2023, s. 5, w.e.f. 1 April 2024, and now refers to control by a foreigner within section 2(27) of the Companies Act, 2013.