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XXVIII. No licence granted under this Ordinance shall entitle the holder to not authorise hunt, kill or capture any animal, or to trespass upon private property, without the
consent of the owner or occupier.
trespass
Hunting, &c., animals be yond limit
XXIX. Any person who, after having killed or captured animals to the number and of the species authorised by his licence, proceeds to hunt, kill or capture any allowed-an animals which he is not authorised to kill or capture shall be guilty of a breach of
offence.
Where servanta
assist. may Licences inay be forfeited.
Importers
may be
this Ordinance.
XXX. (1) Persons in the employment of holders of licences may, without licence, assist such holders of licences in hunting animals, but shall not use fire-arms,
(2) In any case of a breach of the provisions of this section the licence of every licence holder concerned in the breach shall be liable to forfeiture, and such licence holder shall be guilty of an offence.
XXXI. The Governor or any person authorised by him in that behalf may, at of firearms his discretion, require any person importing fire-arms or ammunition that may be required to used by such person for the purpose of killing game or other animals to take out a licence under this Ordinance, and may refuse to allow the fire-arms or ammunition to be taken from the public warehouse until such licence is taken out. Save as afore- said, nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the provisions of " The Uganda Fire-arms Regulations, 1896," or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same.
take out
game licence.
District
Commis- sioner may authorise natives to
RESTRICTION ON KILLING GAME BY NATIVES.
XXXII. (1) When the members of any native tribe or the native inhabitants of any village appear to be devendent on the flesh of wild animals for their subsis- tence, the District Commissioner of the District may, with the approval of the Governor, by order addressed to the Chief of the trike or Headman of the village, kill game. authorise the tribesmen or inhabitants, as the case may be, to kill animals within such area, and subject to such conditions as to mode of hunting, number, species, and sex of animals and otherwise as may be prescribed by the order.
Restriction
on game
which may
be killed.
Provisions re
licence not
to apply.
Other pro-
visions to
apply.
Native licences.
Special licence to natives to kill ele- phaut.
Power to
seize, &c.
(2) An order under this section shall not authorise the killing of any animal mentioned in the first Schedule.
(3) The provisions of this Ordinance with respect to holders of licences shall not apply to a member of a tribe or native inhabitant of a village to which an order under this section applies.
(4) Save as aforesaid, the general provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to every native who is authorised under this section, and a breach of any order shall be a breach of this Ordinance.
XXXIII. The Provincial Commissioner of a District may, at his discretion, grant licences to natives to hunt, kill or capture any of the animals mentioned in the third Schedule, but not more than the number of each species fixed by that Schedule within the said District, on payment of the fees payable for a Resident's licence.
XXXIV. The Provincial Commissioner of a District may grant a special licence to a native to kill one or two elephants as the native shall require and as shall be specified therein upon the same terms as those set out in section twenty-one of this Ordinance.
LEGAL PROCEDURE.
XXXV. Where any public officer of the Uganda Protectorate thinks it expedi- search and ent for the purposes of verifying the register of a licence holder, or suspects that any person has been guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of the conditions of his licence, he may inspect and search, or authorise any subordinate officer to inspect and search, any baggage, packages, waggons, tents, building, or caravan belonging to or under the control of such person, or his agent, and if the officer finds any heads, horns, tusks, skins, feathers or other remains of any animals appearing to have been killed, or any live animals appearing to have been captured, in contravention of this Ordinance, he shall seize and take the same before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law,
Penalties.
XXXVI. (1) Save as herein mentioned, any person who hunts, kills, or captures any animals in contravention of this Ordinance or otherwise commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance or of the conditions of his licence shall on conviction be liable to a fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees and, where the offence relates to more animals than two, to a fine in respect of each animal which may extend to 500 rupees, and in either case to imprisonment of either kind, which may extend to two months, with or without fine:
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(2) Provided that any person who shoots, kills or captures, or attempts to shoot, kill or capture, birds in contravention of this Ordinance shall not be liable to a fine of more than 100 rupees, nor imprisonment of either kind exceeding one month.
viction.
(3) In all cases on conviction the heads, horns, tusks, skins, or other remains of Forfeiture animals found in the possession of the offender or his agent shall be liable to for- on con- feiture, unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that they were not obtained in contravention of this Ordinance, and all live animals captured in contravention of this Ordinance shall be liable to forfeiture. These provisions are subject to section eight of this Ordinance.
(4) If the person convicted is the holder of a licence his licence may be revoked Revocation of licences by the Court.
by Court.
informers.
XXXVII. Where in any proceeding under this Ordinance any fine is imposed, Payment of the Court may award any sum or sums not exceeding half the total fine to any informer or informers.
XXXVIII. The Governor may suspend the operation of this Ordinance or Power to parts thereof, either as to the whole Protectorate or certain districts or portions of suspend districts.
Ordinance.
XXXIX. The Governor may make Rules for the better carrying into effect of Power to this Ordinance.
make
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XL. The following Ordinances and all Proclamations, Orders and Rules there- under are hereby repealed
Rules. Repeals.
The Uganda Game Ordinance, 1906.
The Uganda Game (Amendment) Ordinance, 1910;
but without prejudice always to anything lawfully done thereunder or to the prose- cution of any offence committed before the commencement of this Ordinance.
Entebbe.
10th April, 1913.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
F. J. JACKSON,
Governor.
Animals not to be hunted, killed or captured except under Special Licence:—
1. Giraffe.
2. Elephant.
3. Secretary Bird.
4. Vulture (any species).
5. Owl
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6. Whale-headed Stork (Balaeniceps Rex).
7. Saddle-billed Stork (Epphippiorhynous senegalensis).
8. Crowned Crane (Balearica).
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Animals the females of which are not to be hunted or captured when accom- panying their young, and the young of which are not to be captured except under Special Licence.
1. Elephant.
2. Rhinoceros.
3. Chevrotains (Dorentherium).
4. All Antelopes or Gazelles.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
Animals limited numbers of which may be killed or captured under a Resident's
or Visitor's Licence.
1. Rhinoceros
2. Hippopotamus
except where not protected, viz.:
(1) River Nile.
and George.
(2) Shores of Lakes Victoria, Albert Edward,
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