WILD BIRDS AND GAME PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1885

WILD BIRDS AND GAME PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, 1885

ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1885.

Wild Birds and Game Preservation

AN ORDINANCE 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. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wild Birds and Game Preservation
Ordinance, 1885.

2. In this Ordinance-

'Wild Bird' includes every description of wild bird;

'Game' includes 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.-(1.) No person shall kill, wound, or 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 as hereinafter provided.

(2.) No person shall, from the month of April to the month of September,
both inclusive, offer for sale in this Colony any pheasant or partridge.

(3.) Every person who commits an offence against this section shall,
on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable for a first offence
to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars, and for any subsequence offence
to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, with or without imprisonment
with hard labour not exceeding on 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, on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be
liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, in addition to any
punishment which may be inflicted under the last preceding section.

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

(2.) If at any time any person to whom such persmission has been
granted is, in the opinion of the Governor, guility of any breach of any
condition on which the same was granted, the Governor may, by order,
revoke the same.
A.D. 1885. Ordinance No. 15 of 1885, with Ordinance No. 4 of 1892 s. 2 incorporated.
Short title.
Interpretation of terms. 43 & 44 Vict.c. 85 s. 2. Penalty for killing, etc., wild bird or game without licence, etc. 43 & 44 Vict.c. 8, s. 3.
Penalty for refusing to give name and address. Ib.s.4.
Granting of premission to shoot and take wild birds or game.

A.D. 1885. Ordinance No. 15 of 1885, with Ordinance No. 4 of 1892 s. 2 incorporated.
Short title.
Interpretation of terms. 43 & 44 Vict.c. 85 s. 2. Penalty for killing, etc., wild bird or game without licence, etc. 43 & 44 Vict.c. 8, s. 3.
Penalty for refusing to give name and address. Ib.s.4.
Granting of premission to shoot and take wild birds or game.

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