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and paid the duty hereby made payable thereon and if any person shall offend against the provisions of this section he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds and in default of payment to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding four months.

Form of license and license fee.

19. Every license to take kill or pursue game shall be in the form of Schedule I. to this Act and shall be issued by the Superintendent of the Province in which the person requiring the same shall reside or desire to exercise such license upon payment of the sum of fifty shillings to the Treasurer of such Province and shall be signed by the Superintendent or Treasurer and dated on the day the same was actually issued and shall be in force from the day of the date until the thirty-first day of July 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 one pound.

No person to sell game unless licensed under this Act.

20. No person shall sell game until he shall have taken out a license which shall be in the form of Schedule III. to this Act and be signed by the Superintendent or Treasurer of the Province and shall be in force for a period ending on the seventh day of August and the person requiring the same 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 and it shall be lawful for the holder of every license in the form of Schedule I. to this Act to sell game to any person holding a license to sell game in the form of Schedule III. to this Act without taking out any additional license to sell game as required in this section.

Superintendent may except certain districts over which licenses shall extend.

21. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any province in any license to kill game issued under the provisions of this Act to except from the district over which such license shall extend any lands certified in writing by the chairman of any duly registered Acclimatization Society to be then actually and lawfully used by such society for the purposes of the same and any person hunting or killing or taking any game upon any lands so excepted shall be deemed to be an unlicensed person within the provisions of this Act.

Penalty for destroying eggs.

22. Any person who shall take or wilfully destroy the eggs of any game birds shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Game kept in confinement may be killed.

23. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the owner of any animal or bird coming within the provisions of this Act except those enumerated in section twenty-nine of this Act from keeping the same in confinement or in a domesticated state or from offering for sale or selling or from killing or taking any such animal or bird so kept in confinement or in a domesticated state and it shall be lawful for any person to buy or offer to buy any such animal or bird.

When animals or birds may be sold.

24. No person shall sell or offer for sale or buy or offer to buy any game or native game except during the months within which it shall be lawful to take or kill game or native game and any person offending against the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds and in default of payment to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding three months.

Governor may cause animals etc. to be taken.

25. It shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize any person or persons to catch or take any such animals or birds or the eggs of any such birds for the purpose of distributing changing or turning out the same in some other country or other part of this Colony Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize any person or persons to commit a trespass and provided further that no person or persons shall be deemed to be so authorized to catch or to take or shall catch or take any animals or birds or the eggs of such birds unless he or they can show a license so to do under the hand of the Governor of New Zealand for the time being and no such license shall in any case have any force or effect for a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date of such license.

Persons not to have in possession any such animals or birds.

26. No person shall have in his possession except as hereinafter provided any game or native game except during the months hereinbefore respectively specified without lawful excuse the proof whereof to be on the party charged and such game or native game found in the possession of any person shall be presumed to have been taken or killed by such person contrary to the provisions of this Act until proof to the contrary be given by such person.

Trespasser in pursuit of game liable to penalty.

27. If any person whatever shall at any time commit any trespass by entering or being upon any land in the search or pursuit of game or native game such person shall on conviction thereof before two Justices of the Peace forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding twenty pounds as to such justices shall seem meet Provided always that any person charged with any such trespass shall be at liberty to prove by