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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

ICO. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Fees for licences.

Duration

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(2) The following fees shall be payable for licences, that is to say, for an Resident's licence 75 rupees, for a Visitor's licence 375 rupees, and for a Fortnightly licence 30 rupees.

(3) A Resident's licence and a Visitor's licence shall be in force for one year

of licences. from the date of issue.

Contents of Hcence.

Bond may

be re- quired.

Licence not transferable.

To be pro- duced

when called for.

Animals

(4) A fortnightly licence shall be in force for fourteen days from the date of issue of such licence but not more than one such licence shall be issued to the same person within a period of twelve months.

(5) Every licence shall bear the name, in full, of the person to whom it is granted, the date of issue, the period of its duration, and the signature of the Governor, District Commissioner, or other person authorised to grant licences.

(6) The applicant for a licence may be required to give security by hond or deposit, not exceeding 2,000 rupees, for his compliance with this Ordinance, and with the additional conditions (if any) contained in his licence.

(7) A licence is not transferable.

(8) Every licence must be produced when called for by any officer of the Pro- tectorate Government, and any licence holder who fails, without reasonable cause, to produce it when called for shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

(9) In granting licences under this Ordinance a District Commissioner or any person authorised to grant licences shall observe any general or particular instructions of the Governor.

XIV. (1) A Resident's licence and a Visitor's licence respectively authorise which may the holder to hunt, kill or capture animals of any of the species mentioned in the third Schedule, but unless the licence otherwise provides not more than the number of each species fixed by the second column of that Schedule.

be killed.

To whom

Residen''a

licence rusy

be granted.

Protection

of crops.

Animals

shot for

how

counted

and dealt with.

Close season for birds.

Special licences.

(2) A fortnightly licence authorises the holder to hunt, kill or capture animals of any of the species included in the third Schedule and mentioned in the fourth Schedule provided that the total number of animals shot under such licence does not exceed ten, and that the number of any species does not exceed the number fixed in the second column of the third Schedule.

(3) The holder of a Resident's or a Visitor's licence granted under this Ordinance may by the licence be authorised to kill or capture additional animals of any such species on payment of such additional fees as may be prescribed by the Governor.

XV. 'A`Resident's licence shall not be granted except to a Public Officer of the Protectorate or to a Resident.

XVI. Any landholder, or his servant, finding an animal mentioned in the Schedules spoiling his crops or doing damage to his holding may kill the same without a licence if such act is necessary for the protection of his crops or holding. Pro- vided, however, whenever an elephant shall be killed under the provisions of this section, the tusks shall be the property of the Government and shall be dealt with as the Governor may direct.

XVII. Animals mentioned in the Schedules killed or captured by the holder of a licence upon private land at the request of the occupier and for protection of his crops or holding shall not count towards the number of animals that person is entitled to kill under his licence; but in such case the head, horns, tusks, and skins of such animals shall be the property of the Government, and shall be dealt with as the District Commissioner may direct.

XVIII. (1) The Governor may by Proclamation order any area in the Pro- tectorate to be closed for any period specified in the Proclamation in respect of the killing or capturing of any or all species of wild birds.

(2) Any person who shall kill or capture, or attempt to kill or capture, by any means whatosever, or who shall have in his possession any wild bird captured in contravention of any Proclamation under sub-section one of this section within the area to which such Proclamation is applied, and within the period specified therein, shall be guilty of a breach of this Ordinance.

XIX. (1) Where it appears proper to the Governor for scientific or adminis- trative reasons, he may grant a special licence to any person to kill or capture animals of any one or more species mentioned in any of the Schedules; or to kill, hunt or capture in a game reserve specified beasts or birds of prey, or other animals whose presence is detrimental to the purposes of the game reserve; or, in particular cases, to kill or capture, as the case may be, in a game reserve, an animal or animals of any one or more species mentioned in the Schedules.

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(2) The Governor may, if he thinks fit, grant a licence to any person, European or American, resident in any station situate in or near a game reserve to kill or capture specified birds and noxious animals in such game reserve or such part thereof as shall be defined on such licence or otherwise.

(3) A special licence shall be subject to such conditions as to fees and security (if any), number, sex, and age of specimens, district and season for hunting, and other matters, as the Governor may prescribe,

(4) Save as aforesaid, the holder of a special licence shall be subject to the general provisions of this Ordinance, and to the provisions relating to holders of licences.

Power In

XX. The District Commissioner of the District to which he is appointed may missioner to authorise any person to destroy any animal mentioned in the Schedules if he is authorise satisfied that such animal is doing damage to food supplies or crops.

District ('om-

destruation of

animals in. juring food supplies or crops.

XXI. (1) A Provincial or District Commissioner may on the application of Special the holder of a Resident's or a Visitor's licence grant a special licence authorising licence to such person to hunt, kill or capture either one or two elephants, as the applicant shall kill ele phant. require and as shall be specified therein. Such special licence shall not authorise the holder to hunt, kill or capture any elephant having tusks weighing less than 30 lbs.

each.

(2) There shall be paid for such special licence the fees following:-

For a licence to hunt, kill or capture one elephant

For a licence to hunt, kill or capture two elephants

Rs. 150 450

(3) Every licence granted under this section shall expire on the same date as the Resident's or Visitor's licence held at the time of the granting of such special licence by the person to whom the same shall be granted and only one such special licence shall be granted to such person during the period of any such Resident's or Visitor's licence. Provided, however, if such person shall have taken out a special licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture one elephant only, he may on payment of a further fee of 300 rupees be granted a licence authorising him to hunt, kill or capture a second elephant.

to be

XXII. Every person who shall obtain a special licence under the last preceding Original section shall produce to the officer granting the same his Resident's or Visitor's licence licence and such officer shall endorse thereon the fact of such special licence having been granted and the nature of the licence.

XXIII. When the holder of a Resident's or a Visitor's licence or a special elephant's licence has been prevented by circumstances beyond his own control from making any use of such licence, he shall be granted on application a licence free of charge at any time within five years from the date of his licence.

endorsed.

XXIV. (1) The Governor may, by rule, prescribe the forms of licences to be Forms of issued under the provisions of this Ordinance.

licences.

(2) Every licence holder shall keep a register of the animals killed or captured Game by him in the form specified in the sixth Schedule.

register.

(3) The register, with a copy thereof, shall be submitted as often as convenient, Return of but not less frequently than once in three months, to the nearest District Commis game sioner or Assistant District Commissioner, who shall countersign the entries date and retain the copy.

killed.

up to

(4) Any person authorised to grant licences may at any time call upon any Production

of register licence holder to produce his register for inspection.

for inspec-

(5) Every holder of a licence shall within fifteen days after his licence has tion. expired produce or send the register, and a copy thereof, to a District Commissioner.

(6) If any holder of a licence fails to keep his register truly, or to produce it as Failure to required by this section, he shall be guilty of a breach of this Ordinance.

keep or pro- duce an offence.

XXV. The Governor may revoke any licence when he is satisfied that the holder Revocation has been guilty of a breach of any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of the of licences. conditions of his licence, or has connived with any other person in any such breach,

or that in any matters in relation thereto he has acted otherwise than in good faith.

XXVI. The Governor may at his discretion direct that a licence under this Refusal of Ordinance shall be refused to any applicant.

licences.

XXVII. Any person whose licence has been lost or destroyed may obtain a fresh Lost licence for the remainder of his term on payment of such a fee as the licensing autho- liceuces. rity may fix, not exceeding 5 rupees.

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