New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 72

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✨ Cook Islands Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

All regulations in force under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, or the Customs Act, 1908, or any other Act in force in the Cook Islands shall, so far as such regulations relate to the collection, receipt, expenditure, control, or audit of public moneys, be read subject to the provisions of these regulations.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Cook Islands Act, 1915, for the Protection of Indigenous and Imported Birds, and to prevent the Introduction of Noxious Animals and Birds into the Cook Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of June, 1916.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

No society, authority, or person shall introduce or import into the Cook Islands, or turn at large for the purpose of sport or acclimatization, any animal or bird whatever without the consent in writing of the Resident Commissioner; nor shall any noxious animal, bird, insect, or reptile be introduced or imported into the Cook Islands without such consent as aforesaid.
It shall be the duty of the master, owner, charterer, and agent of any vessel arriving at any port or island in the Cook Islands to effectually prevent any snake or other noxious reptile, scorpion, or insect from being landed in the Cook Islands from such vessel, whether in the cargo or otherwise.
No person shall introduce into the Cook Islands, or liberate, or allow to go at large, or shall have in his possession, any fox, or any venomous reptile, or any hawk or vulture, or any beast or bird of prey, or any flying mammal, or any rabbit, hare, or monkey.
No person shall shoot at, or take, or kill any bird indigenous to the Cook Islands, or any bird which shall have been or may hereafter be imported into the Cook Islands.
The Governor may by notification declare that birds may be taken or killed at such times and in such island or islands, or part of any island, as is described in such notification.
No person shall take or destroy the eggs of any indigenous bird or of any bird lawfully imported into the Cook Islands.
These regulations shall not apply to domestic fowls, ducks, geese, or turkeys. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to prohibit the destruction of the flying mammal known as flying foxes.
Any person who offends against or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.