National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, 2029 (1973).

This National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act, consisting of 34 sections and completed by one Schedule, aims to manage the national parks, protect wildlife and their habitat, regulate hunting and conserve, promote, develop, and make appropriate arrangements for and the use of places which are of special importance from the point of view of natural beauty and to maintain good manners and welfare of the public. The Act establishes that the Government of Nepal may declare an area as a national park or reserve or conservation area by publishing a notice in the Nepal Gazette and indicating the boundary. The Government of Nepal may abandon or transfer the ownership or modify the boundaries of an area, which has once been declared as a national park, reserve or conservation area by publishing a notification in the Nepal Gazette. The Government of Nepal may declare any peripheral area of a national park or reserve as a buffer zone by publishing notification in the Nepal Gazette and indicating the boundaries. No person shall be allowed to enter into a national park or reserve without obtaining an entry permit as prescribed or a written permission from the authorized official.
No person shall carry out the following actions within national park or reserve without obtaining a written permission from the authorized official: a) hunt wildlife; b) construct or possess house, hut, shelter, or any other structures of any material; c) occupy, clear, reclaim or cultivate any part or grow or harvest any crop; d) graze any domestic animal or bird, or feed water to it; e) cut, clear, fell, remove or block trees, plants, bushes or any other forest resources, or do anything to cause any forest resources dry, or set it on fire, or otherwise harm or damage it; f) dig mines, stones or remove any mineral, stone, boulder, earth or any other similar material; cause damage to forest resources or wildlife or birds or any land; h) carry arms, ammunition or poison, or use them; i) take any domestic or any other kind of animal or trophy by persons other than government employees on deputation or visitors of the public paths within the national park or reserve, and j) block, divert any river or stream flowing through national park or reserve, or any other source of water, or use any harmful or explosive materials therein.