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[No. 42-3.12.36.-2.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to make provision for the protection of certain

wild animals.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Animals Short title. Protection Ordinance, 1936.

2. (1) No person shall kill, take, or have in his Provisions possession any wild animal named in the Schedule.

for the protection of certain

(2) No person shall sell, or expose for sale, or have in wild animals. his possession for sale, the carcase, flesh, fur, skin or Schedule. scales, or any part thereof, of any such wild animal killed or taken in the Colony.

3. Every person who contravenes or attempts to Penalty. contravene any provision of section 2 shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to the forfeiture of the animal or part thereof in question.

tion.

4. When any person is charged with an offence against Presump- section 2 (2), it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, that the animal was killed or taken in the Colony and after the commencement of this Ordinance.

5. The Governor in Council may--

(1) for scientific, taxidermic, zoological or other pur- poses, and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, exempt any person or institution from the provisions of section 2 or any part thereof.

(2) add to, alter or amend the Schedule in any manner whatsoever.

Powers of the Governor in Council.

The Pangolin.

The Otter.

SCHEDULE.

[s. 2].

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to prohibit the killing, taking or possession of the Pangolin, the Otter and such other wild animals as the Governor in Council may see fit to add to the Schedule, and to prevent the sale, exposing for sale, or possession for sale, of the carcase, flesh, fur, skin or scales, or any part thereof, of any such wild animal killed or taken in the Colony.

December, 1936.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.