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Schedule.
No. 15 of 1922.
WILD BIRDS.
(2) The regulations in the Schedule shall be in force until altered or amended by regulations made under this Ordinance.
(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution is passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
[ss. 16 and 17, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
SCHEDULE.
[s. 15.]
Regulations.
Game and vermin.
Close season.
Period during which sale, etc., of live partridges and pheasants is prohibited.
1. For the purposes of the Wild Birds Ordinance, 1922—
(a) "Game" means snipe, woodcock, plover, curlew, teal, wild duck, wild geese, partridges, quail, pigeons and doves,
(b) "Vermin" means magpies, kites and hawks of all descriptions.
2. The close season for the purposes of section 7 of the said Ordinance shall be the period extending in any year from the 1st day of February to the 15th day of October, both days inclusive, for the protection of partridges and quail, and the period extending from the 1st day of March to the 15th day of October, both days inclusive, for the protection of doves and pigeons.
3. The period referred to in section 9(2) of the said Ordinance, during which the sale, offer for sale, and possession for the purpose of sale, of live partridges and pheasants is prohibited shall be the period extending in any year from the 1st day of April to the 30th day of September, both days inclusive.