WILD BIRDS AND WILD MAMMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE 1954.
(No. 8 of 1954),
WILD BIRDS AND WILD MAMMALS (AMENDMENT OF SECOND SCHEDULE) ORDER 1966.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20 of the Wild Birds and Wild Mammals Protection Ordinance 1954, the Governor has made
the following order-
1. This order may be cited as the Wild Birds and Wild Mammals Citation.
(Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 1966.
2. The Second Schedule to the Ordinance is amended by-
Amendment
of Second
(a) deleting "The hunting of the mammals and birds specified Sebedule.
below is prohibited."; and
(9 of 1954).
(b) inserting the following under the heading "Mammals", after
"Leopard Car-Felis bengalensis"-
"Orang Utan-Pongo pygmaeus”.
8th December, 1966.
By Command,
Explanatory Note.
n. Dming Cass
Colonial Secretary.
(This Note is xor part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general purport).
This order makes orang utans scheduled mammals for the purposes of the Wild Birds and Wild Mammals Protection Ordinance 1954. In" particular, this means that, save in Recordance with a permit graated by the Governor, it is unlawful to possess, buy, sell or export an orang utan.
(Secretariat E13/3231/530H