law: The Biological Diversity Act, 2002
  7. Prior intimation
  
  to State Biodiversity Board for obtaining biological resource for certain
  
  purposes.-
  No person, who is a
  
  citizen of India or a body corporate, association or organisation which is
  
  registered in India, shall obtain any biological resource for commercial
  
  utilisation, or bio-survey and bio-utilisation for commercial utilisation
  
  except after giving prior intimation to the State Biodiversity Board concerned:
  
  Provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the local people
  
  and communities of the area, including growers and cultivators of biodiversity,
  
  and vaids and hakims, who have been practising indigenous medicine.