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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,
AUSTRALIAN indigenous to the Colony in his possession And every person offending against the COLONIES. provisions of this section shall be liable on conviction thereof before any two Justices of the Peace to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds and in default of payment to be imprisoned for a period of not more than six months.
Penalty for
plivasant.
30. Every person who shall within three years from the passing of this Act sell offer ing her for sale or expose for sale any dead hen pheasant shall on conviction forfeit and pay for every such act a sum not exceeding twenty pounds and if such person hold any licence to kill or sell game under this Act such licence shall become on the conviction ipso facto void.
Who may demand pro duction of licence
Rauger my be appointed.
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Bays may be whipped.
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31. It shall be the duty of every person in pursuit of game to produce his licence to any authorized person demanding such production and the term "authorized person' shall include all magistrates and constables and all rangers appointed under this Act and the proprietors or occupier of the land on which any person may be found in pursuit of
game.
32. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint one or more fit and proper persons to be and be styled rangers whose duty it shall be to observe and take care that the provisions of this Act be complied with in the province or district for which they may be appointed and to lay informations against such persons as may offend against the same and any such ranger to discharge such duties as the superin- tendent shall think fit.
33. All fees for licences fines and penalties arising and which may be received and recovered by virtue of the provisions of this Act shall except as hereinafter provided be applied in the first instance in or towards defraying the salaries and expenses of the ranger or rangers to be appointed as aforesaid and any other expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and subject thereto the balance if any shall be handed to the treasurer of some acclimatization society if any in the province in which such fees or fines shall have been paid or recovered for the purposes of such society and if there shall be no such society shall be carried to. the credit of the revenue of such province,
34. All penalties created by this Act shall be recoverable in the manner directed by any Act for the time being in force for the regulation of summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace and any offence against any of the provisions of this Act for which no punishment is herein specially provided shall be punished on conviction before a resident magistrate or Justice of the Peace by a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and one-half of any fine recovered under this Act shall be paid to the person or persons who shall be instrumental in procuring any such conviction in such proportion as the con- vieting resident magistrate or justice shall specify.
35. No person under the age of fifteen years who may be convicted under this Act shall be liable to imprisonment anything in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding but may in default of payment of any fine so inflicted be privately whipped if so ordered by the convicting Justice or Justices such whipping to take place in the presence of the convicting magistrate.
36. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to issue without fee to officers serving in vessels in Her Majesty's Navy and stationed in New Zealand licences to kill game in the form of Schedule II. to this Act and in every such licence to limit the time during which and to fix the conditions not being repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act whereon such licence shall be held and also to define the district wherein such licence shall operate.
37. Every such licence shall during its currency and subject to such conditions as may to have sate be contained therein have the same force and effect within the districts therein defined lence kill as any other licence to kill game issued under the provisions of this Act and the holder of such lice nee shall be subject to the same liabilities and have the same privileges as the holder of any other such licence issued under this Act.
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38. The Governor may by Order in Council published in the New Zealand Gazette from time to time delegate to the Superintendent or Executive of any Province or to any other person or persons within the said Colony all or any of the powers by this Act vested in the Governor of the Governor in Council subject to such regulations as he may think fit and may from time to time rescind such delegation.
SCHEDULE I-LICENCE TO KILL GAME,
[Name in full] of [residence and description of person licensed] having this day paid the pursuant to "The Protection of Animals Act 1867 is hereby
sum of
day of
AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.
licensed to kill game within the Province of
during the months of May AcSTRALIAN June and July 186
Dated at
the
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COLONIES.
186
Signed
SCHEDULE II.
[Names in full] of Her Majesty's [ship or vessel &c. add name of ship or vessel &c, in which officer is serving pursuant to "The Protection of Animals Act 1867" is hereby licensed to kill game within [here name the Province or District within which the licence is to operate from the
day of
186 to the day of
both days inclusive [add condition if any)]. Dated at
the
day of
SCHEDULE III.—LICENCE TO SELL GAME.
180
186
[Name in full] of [residence and description of person licensed] having this day paid the sum of five pounds (£5) pursuant to "The Protection of Animals Act 1867" is hereby licensed to sell game within the Province of July and August.
Dated at
Title. Preamble.
1. Short Title.
Pheasants. Partridges. Grouse.
the
Black Game.
during the months of May June
186
day of
SCHEDULE IV.
Quails. Snipe.
Plover.
Swans.
SCHEDULE V.
Teal
Wild Duck of any species. Bittern.
Pied Stilt Plover. Wild Geese.
Wood Pigeon.
Enclosure 3 in No. 44.
NEW ZEALAND.
Hares. Antelope. Deer.
Imported Wild Duck of any species.
Black Stilt Plover. Curlew
Quail.
ANNO TRICESIMO SECUNDO VICTORLE REGINE.
No. LXIX.
ANALYSIS.
2. Amendment in section 11 of "The Protection of Animals
Act 1867."
3. Provian in lien of section 12.
4. Section IG repealed.
5. Section 18 amended.
6. Section 25 amended.
7. Suction 31 amended.
8. Act to be read with "The Protection of Animals Act 1667.
9. Amendment in Schedule V.
Schedule.
AN ACT to amend "The Protection of Animals Act 1867."
[20th October 1868.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Protection of Animals Act 1867" hereinafter referred to as "the said Act."
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand and Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows-
1. The Short Title of this Act shall be "The Protection of Animals Act Amendment Act 1868."
Enclosure 3
in No. 44.
Title.
Preamble.
Short title.
Amendment
"The Protec
1867."
2. So much of the eleventh section of the said Act as enacts that no native game shall be hunted shot taken or killed in any part of the Colony except during the months of in section 11 of April May June and July in each year is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted tion of Ani- that-No native game shall be hunted shot taken or killed in any part of the Colony mals, Act except during such months as the Governor shall from time to time by proclamation appoint in reference to the respective descriptions of native game within the districts mentioned in any such proclamation and that the Governor may from time to time as
such
pro any he may think fit by proclamation in like manner alter vary or annul clamation.
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