WILD BIRDS.
No. 15 of 1922.
No. 15 of 1922. 2685
An Ordinance to make provision for the protection of certain wild birds and game.
[1st September, 1922.]
No. 15 of 1922.
[Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Birds Ordinance, 1922.
2. "Game" and "vermin" shall have such meanings as may be assigned to them for the purposes of this Ordinance by regulations made under this Ordinance.
3. No person shall ---
(1) kill, wound or take any bird other than game and other than vermin;
(2) take, remove, injure or destroy any nest or egg of any such bird;
(3) sell or offer for sale, or knowingly have in his possession, any such bird or any part of any such bird, killed, wounded or taken in the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance, or the nest or any egg of any such bird, taken in the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance; or
(4) export the skin or plumage of any such bird killed, wounded or taken, or the nest or any egg of any such bird taken, in the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance.
4.-(1) No person shall kill, wound or take any game without having previously obtained a licence from the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(2) Every such licence shall be subject to any regulations or other enactments in force for the time being.
(3) Every such licence may be revoked at any time by the Captain Superintendent of Police in his discretion, if the holder thereof commits or attempts to commit any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance, or of any of the regulations made thereunder, or of any of the conditions of the said licence, or shoots to the danger of the public.