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Compensation
for damage to crops.
(Cap. 227.)
Power to amend Schedules.
Cancellation of game licences and refund of fees.
CAP. 170]
Wild Animals Protection
[1980 Ed.
21. (1) If any damage is caused to growing crops by a person, or by his attendants or dogs, whilst engaged in hunting, he shall be liable to pay to the owner of the crops by way of compensation such sum of money as a magistrate may, on hearing a complaint under Part II of the Magistrates Ordinance, order.
(2) Any compensation ordered to be paid under subsection (1)—
(a) shall be paid within 7 days after the date of the order; or
(b) shall, if not paid in accordance with paragraph (a), be recovered as if it were a fine imposed by a magistrate under this Ordinance.
22. (1) The Governor may by order published in the Gazette amend any Schedule.
(2) Where the Governor amends the Sixth Schedule, an amendment of an area specified in that Schedule or the insertion therein of a new area shall be described by reference to a plan signed and dated by the Director and deposited in the Land Office, Victoria, and such plan shall be available for inspection at the Land Office, Victoria, and copies of it shall be available for inspection at every District Office in the New Territories.
(Amended, 58 of 1980, s. 13)
23. (1) All game licences issued under the repealed section 14 are cancelled with effect from 1 January 1981.
(2) Any person who immediately before 1 January 1981 was the holder of a game licence which is cancelled by subsection (1) may apply for and be granted by the Director a refund of that proportion of his licence fee that the number of days remaining in the unexpired term of his licence bears to 365.
(3) Any refund of licence fee which has not been applied for within 12 months after 1 January 1981 shall be irrecoverable.
(58 of 1980, s. 16, incorporated)
FIRST SCHEDULE
[Deleted, 58 of 1980, s. 15]