No: 10 Dated: Aug, 03 2023

Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023

An Act further to amend the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act, 2023.

    (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in the preamble,-