Wild Birds.
WILD BIRDS.
WILD BIRDS REGULATIONS.
(Cap. 171, section 15). (Ordinance No. 15 of 1922).
[1st September, 1922.]
[CAP. 171
Regulations- Fraser,
vol. 3, p. 959.
G.N. 653/47. G.N.A. 151/50. G.N.A. 79/51.
1. These regulations may be cited as the Wild Birds Regulations.
2. For the purposes of the Ordinance-
Game and vermin.
"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.
3. The close season for the purposes of section 7 of Close season. the 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 14th day of September, both days inclusive, for the protection of pigeons and doves.
4. The period referred to in subsection (2) of section 9 Close season of the 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.
5. No bird of any description other than vermin shall Prohibited be killed, wounded or taken in the following areas—
(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
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