38468-1914-Supplementary-Bill-read-a-first-time--Wild-Birds-and-Game-Preservation — Page 1

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 181.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 18th June, 1914 :-

Short title.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1885.

Definition.

Enumeration

of offences

for pro- tection of birds in Schedule A.

Killing, etc., wild bird or game with- out licence.

Close season

for birds in

Schedule B.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to make provision for the pro-

tection of certain Wild Birds and Game.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Birds and Game Preservation Ordinance, 1914.

2. The Wild Birds and Game Preservation Ordinance, 1885, is hereby repealed.

3. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires :-

"Game

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means every description of deer, hare and rabbit.

4. No person shall :-

(1.) kill, wound or take, or attempt to kill, wound or take, any bird included in Schedule A ; (2.) take, remove, injure or destroy any nest or egg

of any such bird;

(3.) expose or offer for sale, or knowingly have in his possession, any such biri, or any part of any such bird, killed, wounded or taken in this Colony after the commencement of this Ordi- nance, or the nest or eggs of any such bird taken in this Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance; or,

(4.) export or attempt to export the skin or plumage of any such bird, killed, wounded or taken, or the uest or eggs of any such bird taken in this Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance.

5. No person shall kill, wound or take, or attempt to kill, wound or take, any wild bird or game, without having previously obtained a licence from the Captain Super- intendent of Police in the form set forth in Schedule C, the fee for which shall be that specified in the said Schedule.

6. No person shall in any year between the first day for game and of February and the fifteenth day of October both days inclusive, which period is hereinafter called the close season, kill, wound or take, or attempt to kill, wound or take, any game or any bird specified in Schedule B, or take, remove, injure or destroy any nest or egg of any such bird, or knowingly have in his possession, or expose or offer for sale, or purchase, or export or attempt to export any such bird, or any part of any such bird killed, wounded or taken in this Colony during the close season, or the nest or eggs of any such bird taken in this Colony during the close season,

Onus of proof on person found in possession,

etc., of bird, nest or eggs.

Selling, etc.. live pheasant or

partridge

without licence.

7. When any person is proceeded against for exposing or offering for sale or having in his possession or exporting or attempting to export any bird or any part of any bird, or the nest or eggs of any bird, the proof that the bird was killed, wounded or taken or the nest or eggs taken with- out this Colony or before the commencement of this Ordi- nance or otherwise than during the close season as the case may be shall be on such person.

8. No person shall at any time offer for sale or have in his possession for the purpose of sale any live pheasant or partridge without having previously obtained a licence from the Captain Superintendent of Police.