WILD BIRDS ORDINANCE, 1922

WILD BIRDS ORDINANCE, 1922

No. 15 of 1922.

An Ordinance to make provision for the Protection of certain
wild birds and game.

[1st September, 1922.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Birds
Ordinance, 1922.

2. .' Game ' and ' vermin ' shall have such meanings
as may. be assigned to them for the purposes of this Ordinance
by regulations made under this Ordinance.

3. No person shall-
(1) kill, wound or take any bird other than game and
vermin;

The regulations formerly contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance
have been transferred to the corresponding volume of the Regulations
of Hong Kong.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.





(2) take, remove, injure or destroy any nest or egg of any
such bird;

(3) sell or offer for sale, or knowingly have in his posses.
sion, any such bird or any part of any such bird, killed, wounded
or taken in the Colony, or the nest or any egg of any such bird,
taken in the Colony; or

(4) export the skin or plumage of any such bird killed,
wounded or taken, or the nest or any egg of any such bird taken,
in the Colony.

No person shall kill, wound or take any game
without having previously obtained a licence from the Com-
missioner of Police.

(2) Every such licence shall be subject to any regulations
or other enactments in force for the time being.;.

(3) Every such 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
this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder or
of any of the conditions of the said licence, or' shoots to the
danger of the public.

5. 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.

6. No person shalt take, remove, injure. or destroy any nest
or egg of any garne or knowingly have in his possession any
nest or egg of any game taken in the Colony.

7. During the close season in any year, no person shall
kill, wound or take any such game as may be prescribed by
regulations made under this Ordinance, or knowingingly have in
his possession or sell or offer for sale or purchase or export any
such game or any part of stich game killed, wounded or taken
in the Colony during the said close season.

8. When any person is charged with selling or offering for
sale, or knowingly having
in his possession or exporting or

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attempting to export, any bird or any part of any bird or the nest
or any egg of any bird, it shall be presurned until the contrary
is proved that such bird was killed, wounded or taken, or that
such nest or egg was taken, within the Colony, and in the case
of the game mentioned in section 7, that the killing, wounding or
taking in question was effected during the close season referred
to in the said section.

9.(1) No person shall at any time have in his possession
any live partridge or pheasant taken in the Colony.

(2) During such period in any year as may be prescribed by
regulations made under this Ordinance, no person shall sell or
offer for sale or have in his possession for the purpose of sale
any live partridge or pheasant.

10.(1) When any offence has been committed against this
Ordinance any person may require the offender to give bis name,
description and place of abode.

(2) If such offender does not truly give his name,
description and place of abode, he shall be guilty of an offence
in addition to that which he has been found committing.

11. Every person who contravenes or attempts to contravene
any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the
regulations made thereunder, or who commits a breach of any
condition of any licence issued thereunder, shall upon summary
conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.

12. If any injury is done to growing crops by any person,
or by his attendants or dogs, while engaged in the pursuit of
game, such person shall be liable to pay to the owner of the
crops by way of compensation such sum of money not exceeding
fifty dollars as a magistrate may determine.

13. Any bird or -any part of any bird or the nest or any egg
of any bird in respect of which any person is convicted under
this Ordinance shall be forfeited.

14. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, the
Governor may by writing under his hand for such time and

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subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, authorize any person for
scientific or other purposes, to kill, wound or take any wild bird or to take or
remove the nest or eggs of any wild bird.

15. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make re-ulations for
the following purposes


(a) defining ' game ' and ' vermin ' for the purposes of this
Ordinance;

(b) determining the form And conditions of the licence referred to in
section 4 and the fee to be paid therefor;

(c) prescribing the close ' season referred to in section 7, and
specifying such game as shall be protected thereby;

(d) prescribing the period referred to in sub-section (2) Of section 9,
during which the sale, offer for sale and possession for the purpose of sale
of live partridges and pheasants shall be prohibited, and extending the
application of such prohibition to any other birds;

(e) prohibiting the shooting or taking of game or any particular kind of
game within certain specifiied areas, and varying the boundaries of any
such areas ; and

(f) generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of
this Ordinance.

No. 16 of 1922, repealed by No. 17 Of 1923.

No. 17 of 1922, repealed by No. 5 Of 1924.

No. 18 of 1922, repealed by Law Revision
Ordinance, 1939, Supp. Sched.

No. 19 of 1922, incorporated in No. 1 of 1873.


No. 20 of 1922, incorporated in No. 2 Of 1889.

As amended' by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
[Originally No. 15 of 1922. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]* Short title. Interpretation. Protection of birds other than game and vermin. Game licences. Prohibition of shotting at birds in neighbour-hood of houses. Protection of nests and eggs of game. Close season for certain game. Presumption in case of person. charged with being in possession, etc., of bird, nest or eggs. Possession and sale of live partridges and pheasants. Offender to give name, etc. Penalty. Compensation for injury to crops. Forfeiture. Authority for scientific or other purposes. Regulations.

[Originally No. 15 of 1922. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]* Short title. Interpretation. Protection of birds other than game and vermin. Game licences. Prohibition of shotting at birds in neighbour-hood of houses. Protection of nests and eggs of game. Close season for certain game. Presumption in case of person. charged with being in possession, etc., of bird, nest or eggs. Possession and sale of live partridges and pheasants. Offender to give name, etc. Penalty. Compensation for injury to crops. Forfeiture. Authority for scientific or other purposes. Regulations.

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