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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD MAY, 1885.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 210.

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The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held day, is published for general information.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 15th May, 1885.

A BILL

ENTITLED

The Preservation of Wild Birds and Game

WHE

Ordinance.

"HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the preservation of Wild Birds and Game: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Ordinances 1 of 1870 and 16 of 1884, are hereby repealed.

2. In this Ordinance the words "Wild Bird" shall in- clude every description of wild bird; and the word "Game" shall include every description of deer, hare, rabbit, pheasant, partridge, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, bustard, woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, wild-duck, and widgeon.

3. No person shall kill, wound, take, or attempt to kill, wound, or take any wild bird, or game, or use any gun, net, or other instrument whatever for such purpose, without having previously obtained a licence from the Governor in Council as herein after provided.

And no person shall, from the month of April to the month of September both inclusive, offer for sale in this Colony any pheasant or partrige.

Any person committing an offence against this section shall be liable, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, for a first offence to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars, and for any subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars with or without imprisonment with hard labour not exceeding 1 month.

4. Where any person is found offending against this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for any person to require the person so offending to give his name, surname and place of abode; and in case the person offending, after being so required, refuses to give his real name and place of abode, he shall be liable on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, in addition to any punishment which may be inflicted under Section 3.

5. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, at discretion grant to any person, for such considerations and upon such conditions and for such periods not exceeding five years at any one time and in such form as may, from time to time, be determined by the Governor in Council, permission to shoot and take game or wild birds or any particular descriptions of game or wild birds within any particular districts or localities in this Colony.

If at any time any person to whom such permission has been granted is, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, guilty of any breach of any condition on which the same was granted, the Governor in Council may, by order, revoke the same.

ARATHIOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils.