28 Wild Birds Protection

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 28.

WILD BIRDS PROTECTION.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PROTECTION OF WILD BIRDS.

[1th August 1952.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Wild Birds Protection Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'immature bird' means any wild bird not yet able to fly;

'open season' means any period of the year other than the close season assigned to any wild bird in the Schedule to this Act;

'wild bird' means any bird enumerated in the Schedule to this Act.

3. Any person who during the close season respectively assigned to any wild bird by the Schedule to this Act(a) kills or captures or attempts to kill or capture any such wild bird;

(b) uses or has in his possession any firearm or other weapon or any line, trap, snare, net or other instrument for the purpose of capturing any such wild birds;

(c) takes from any nest or place of deposit the eggs of any such wild bird, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to establish reserves for the protection of any wild bird and from time to time to vary, enlarge or reduce the extent of such reserves.

(2) Such reserves may comprise any land belonging to the Crown or to any private owner.

52 of 1952.

56 of 1954.

G.N. 13 of 1960.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Schedule.

Killing or capturing certain wild birds during the close season punishable.

Schedule.

Reserves for the protection of wild birds.

56 of 1954, s. 2

Schedule.

(3) Any person who enters upon any such reserve with intent to kill or capture any wild bird shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

5.-(1) Any person who during the close season respectively assigned to any wild bird by the Schedule to this Act shall expose or offer for sale any such wild bird or the eggs, skin or feathers of any such wild bird shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

(2) Any person who during the close season respectively assigned to any wild bird by the Schedule to this Act, where such close season comprises the whole year, shall have in his possession or control any such wild bird or the eggs, skin or feathers of any such wild bird shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

(3) Any person who during the close season respectively assigned to any wild bird by the Schedule to this Act, where such close season does not comprise the whole year, shall have in his possession or control any such wild bird, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act unless he prove that such wild...