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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 19, 1936.
The attention of the licensee is drawn to the following provisions of the Wild Birds Ordinance, 1922, and of the Regulations made thereunder.
(a) This licence is subject to any regulations or other enactments in force for the time being.
(b) This licence may be revoked at any time by the Inspector General of Police in his discretion, if the holder thereof commits or attempts to commit any breach of the provisions of the Ordinance, or of any of the regulations made thereunder, or of any of the conditions of this licence, or shoots to the danger of the public.
(c) No person shall kill, wound or take any bird other than game or vermin.
(d) For the purposes of the Wild Birds Ordinance, 1922, "Game" means snipe, woodcock, plover, curlew, teal, wild duck, wild geese, partridges, quail, pigeons and doves.
"Vermin" means magpies, kites and hawks of all descriptions.
(e) No shooting of birds is permitted within two hundred yards of any inhabited house in Victoria, the Peak District, or the Kowloon Peninsula south of a line drawn from Kowloon City Police Station to Shamshuipo Police Station.
(f) No birds of any description, except magpies, hawks and kites may be killed, wounded or taken in any prohibited
area.
The prohibited areas at the date of the issue of this licence are:-
(a) That part of the New Territories situated at or near Fanling which is bounded by a line drawn from Fanling railway station up to the crest of the ridge meeting the railway at this point continuing south-westwards along the crest of the ridge down to its junction with the path leading towards the Ha Tse Gap and along that path to where it meets the Tsiu Kang Stream; thence by the main Tsiu Kang Stream to where it meets the main road near Ho Tung Farm; thence by the main road to the level crossing near Fanling Village, thence by the railway line to Fanling railway station.
(b) The whole of the Island of Cheung Chau.
(c) The whole of the Island of Hong Kong.
NOTE:-
-No birds of any description, other than those specified in the licence, (and magpies, kites and hawks, which, being vermin, may be shot at any time without a licence may be killed, wounded or taken without a special licence from the Governor, this prohibition includes PHEASANTS.
LICENSEE IS EXEMPTED BY ME UNDER ORDINANCE
No. 2 OF 1933 IN RESPECT OF ONE SHOTGUN AND
500 ROUNDS OF SPORTING AMMUNITION.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
17th June, 1936.
Inspector General of Police.
R. A. D. FORREST,
Clerk of Councils.
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