Game not to be taken or killed without license under a penalty of £20.

III. Every person before he shall in New Zealand take, kill, or pursue, or aid or assist in any manner in the taking, killing, or pursuing by any means whatsoever, or use any dog, gun, net, or other engine for the purpose of taking, killing, or pursuing any game, shall take out a proper license to kill game under this Act and pay the duty hereby made payable thereon; and if any person shall do any act as hereinbefore mentioned in New Zealand without having duly taken out and having in force such license as aforesaid, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds and not less than five pounds: Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the proprietor of any enclosed land from taking, killing, and pursuing game on such enclosed land or subject him to any penalty for so doing.

Exceptions and Exemptions.

The following exceptions and exemptions from the duties and provisions of this Act are hereby made and granted (that is to say)—

1. The taking or destroying of hares by the proprietor of any enclosed ground whatever, or by the tenant of lands, by himself or by his direction or permission, upon such ground or lands.

2. The pursuing and killing of hares respectively by coursing by greyhounds or by hunting with beagles or other hounds.

3. The pursuing and killing of deer by hunting with hounds.

4. The taking and killing of deer in any enclosed lands by any owner or occupier of such lands or by his direction or permission.

Form of license and license fees.

IV. Every license to any person to take, kill, or pursue game shall be in the form in the first Schedule to this Act and shall be issued by the Superintendent of the Province in which such person shall reside or desire to exercise such license upon payment of the sum of five pounds to the Treasurer of the Province in which such person shall reside or desire to exercise such license; shall be signed by the Superintendent of the Province and dated on the day when the same was actually issued and shall be in force from the day of the date until the first day of January next following the date thereof; and any such license may be issued at any date subsequent to the thirtieth day of June in any year upon payment of the sum of three pounds.

No person to sell game unless licensed under this Act.

V. Every person before he shall sell game in New Zealand shall take out a license which shall be in the form in the second Schedule to this Act and be signed by the Superintendent of the Province and shall be in force for a period ending on the thirty-first day of December next following and shall in respect of every such license or renewal of license pay to the Treasurer of the Province in which such license shall be issued the sum of five pounds; and if any person shall sell any game without having duly taken out and having in force such license as aforesaid, he shall for every such act forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds.

Penalty for selling hen pheasant.

VI. Every person who shall within three years of the passing of this Act offer for sale or expose for sale a dead hen pheasant shall forfeit and pay for every such act a sum not exceeding twenty pounds and not less than five pounds: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall affect the provisions of Section XI. of “The Protection of Certain Animals Act 1865.”

How penalties recoverable.

VII. All penalties created by this Act shall be recoverable in the manner directed by any Act for the time being in force for the regulation of summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace.

Rangers may be appointed.

VIII. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time to time to appoint one or more fit and proper persons to be and be styled Rangers, whose duty shall be to observe and take care that the provisions of this Act be complied with in the Province or district for which they may be appointed and to lay information against such persons as may offend against the same; and any such Ranger to discharge as the Superintendent shall think fit.

Who may demand production of license.

IX. If any person shall be discovered doing any act whatever in respect whereof a license to kill game shall be required under this Act by any Ranger, Revenue officer, or by any person having duly taken out a license to kill game under this Act or by the owner, landlord, lessee, or occupier of the land on which such person shall then be, it shall be lawful for such Ranger, Revenue officer, or other person as aforesaid to demand and require from the person so acting the production of a license to kill game issued to him; and the person so acting is hereby required to produce such license to the person so demanding the production thereof and to permit him to read the same and (if he shall think fit) to take a copy thereof or of any part thereof; and in case no such license shall be produced to the person demanding