WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE

WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 170.

WILD ANIMALS
PROTECTION.

To make provision for the protection of certain wild

animals.

[31st December, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Anirnals
Protection Ordinance.

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

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

3. Every person who contravenes or attempts to
contravene anv provision of section 2 shall be liable upon
summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to the
forfeiture of such animal or such part.

4. When any person is charged with an offence
against subsection (2) of section 2, until the contrary is
proved, that the animal was killed or taken in the Colony.

5. The Governor in Council may-

(a)for scientific, taxidermic, zoological or other purposes,
and subject to such conditions and in such nianner as
fie thinks fit, exempt any person or institution from the
Provisions of section 2 or any part thereof ;

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

SCHEDULE. [ s. 2.]

The Pangolin
The Otter.
56 of 1936. 22 of 1950. Short title. Provisions for the protection of certain wild animals. Schedule. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Presumption. Powers of the Governor in Council.

56 of 1936. 22 of 1950. Short title. Provisions for the protection of certain wild animals. Schedule. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Presumption. Powers of the Governor in Council.

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