1950_WILD_BIRDS_REGULATIONS — Page 3

Wild Birds.

(3) This licence is not transferable.

Fee $50.

Hong Kong,

, 19

Commissioner of Police.

RECEIVED the sum

here stated in

5

printed figures.

Game Licence

Code.

Reference No.

G.

The attention of the licensee is drawn to the following provisions of the Wild Birds Ordinance, and of the regulations made thereunder-

(a) this licence is subject to any regulations or other enactments in force for the time being;

(b) this licence may be revoked at any time by the Commissioner of Police in his discretion, if the holder thereof commits or attempts to commit any breach of the provisions of the Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder or of any of the conditions of this licence, or shoots to the danger of the public;

(c) no person shall kill, wound or take any bird other than game or vermin;

(d) for the purposes of the Wild Birds Ordinance-

"game" means snipe, woodcock, plover, curlew, teal, wild duck, wild geese, partridges, quail, pigeons and doves;

"vermin" means magpies, kites and hawks of all descriptions;

(e) in the island of Hong Kong and in Kowloon and New Kowloon, no person shall shoot at any bird from any place situated within two hundred yards of any inhabited house;

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