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Friday, November 10, 1972

In an effort to improve the enforcement of the protection of wild

life in Hong Kong, the bill also seeks to confer on police officers the authority

to inspect game licences, arrest people and seize items such as nets, gins

and snares used for the trapping and killing of wild birds and mammals. At

present only justices of the peace and game wardens have these powers.

Details of the amending legislation, known as the Wild Birds and

Wild Maremale Protection (Amendment) Bill 1972, are published in today's gazette.

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