Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
The purpose of these regulations is to amend the provisions of the Dutiable Commodities Regulations to enable-
(a) the Director to waive landing certificates in respect of goods exported where there is evidence that the goods could not have reached their destinations for some legitimate reasons outside the exporter's control (regulation 2);
(b) the Director to waive import duties on samples and advertising
materials (regulation 3};
(c) to oblige buyers and dealers of tobacco and liquor to keep records
in the same manner as retailers (regulations 4, 5, 8):
(d) to make amended provision for bonded storage of dutiable aircraft
stores at Kai Tak:
and to make certain formal amendments to Form 26.
(Secretariat 48/3231/47)
WILD BIRDS AND WILD MAMMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1954.
(No. 8 of 1954).
WILD BIRDS AND WILD MAMMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE (AMENDMENT OF FIRST SCHEDULE) ORDER, 1956.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Wild Birds and Wild Mammals Protection Ordinance, 1954, the Governor in Council has made the following Order--
1. This Order may be cited as the Wild Birds and Wild Citation, Mammals Protection Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order, 1956.
2. The First Schedule of the Wild Birds and Wild Amendment
of First Mammals Protection Ordinance, 1954, is amended-
Schedule.
(a) by the addition of the word "Doves" to list B of the (8 of 1954).
column headed "GAME";
(b) by the addition of the word "Doves" to list C of the column headed "GAME" and the insertion, opposite thereto in the column headed "CLOSE SEASON', of the words and fullstop-
"from the 15th February to 31st October, both days inclusive."
་་
MILLE
Clerk of Councils.
Council CHAMBER,
11th December, 1956.
Explanatory Note,
(This Note is not part of the Order, but in intended to indicate its general purport),
The effect of this Order is to classify Doves, whether resident or inigratory, as "game" for the purposes of the Wild Birds and Wild Mammals Protection Ordinance, 1954 (No. 8 of 1954), and to prescribe a close season during which they may not be hunted, which will extend from 15 February to 31 October, both days inclusive, in each year.
(Secretariat 13/3231/53)