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Section 7 — Prior intimation to State Biodiversity Board for accessing biological resource for certain purposes

Section 7

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Summary

Requires a person other than one covered by section 3(2) to give prior intimation to the State Biodiversity Board before accessing a biological resource or associated knowledge for commercial utilisation, subject to sections 23(b) and 24(2). The proviso exempts codified traditional knowledge, cultivated medicinal plants and products, local communities, growers and cultivators, and vaids, hakims and registered AYUSH practitioners practising indigenous medicine for livelihood. Cultivated medicinal plants qualify only with a Biodiversity Management Committee certificate of origin.

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Act number: 18 of 2003
Jurisdiction: India (Union)
Source record: India Code 123456789/496021 — a2003-18.pdf
Locator: Section 7

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The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 — India Code consolidated text (incorporating Act 10 of 2023)
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Official documentSection 7Record India Code 123456789/496021 — a2003-18.pdf
“7. Prior intimation to State Biodiversity Board for accessing biological resource for certain purposes.”
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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. Substituted by Act 10 of 2023, s. 9, w.e.f. 1 April 2024. The exempted AYUSH practitioners must have been practising indigenous medicine as a profession for sustenance and livelihood.