Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the royalty
may be paid after any auction sale takes place, on the
condition that the broker gives an undertaking to the
stamping officer that royalty will be paid within twenty-
four hours after the sale takes place.

13. Every licensed broker shall keep a register in the form
    No. 5 in the First Schedule hereto, and shall on receipt
    of any opossum-skins enter therein the correct name, address,
    and occupation of each company, firm, or person from whom
    such skins are obtained for sale, indicating the locality where
    the opossuns were taken and to whom such skins are sold.
    Such register shall be produced for inspection on demand by
    any constable, officer of an acclimatization society, ranger, or
    authorized officer.

14. Every licensed broker shall, immediately the sale of any
    opossum-skins takes place, forward to the secretary of the
    acclimatization society in whose district the opossums were
    taken a catalogue of such sale, giving the names of the sellers
    and buyers ; and, immediately after the last day of each
    month, shall forward to the Under-Secretary, Department of
    Internal Affairs, a certified copy of the entries made during
    the month in the register referred to in regulation 13, noting
    thereon the number of opossum-skins then in his possession.

15. Any person who retains opossum-skins for his own
    use, or for the purpose of preserving and manufacturing into
    rugs, coats, or other articles, shall pay a royalty of ls. per
    skin as provided in the foregoing regulations, and such skins
    must have the royalty-paid stamp affixed by the authorized
    officer before such skins are tanned or prepared for tanning
    or other method of preservation.

16. Except as provided in these regulations, every owner
    of an opossum-skin not bearing the official mark shall pay to
    an authorized officer a royalty of one shilling (ls.) in respect
    thereof within one month from the date of these regulations
    or within one month from the date of the skin coming into his
    possession, whichever is the later. It shall be the duty of
    such authorized officer to have the said skin stamped with
    the appropriate official mark immediately such royalty is paid.

17. All opossum-skins in the possession of any person
    shall, on demand by any constable, officer of an acclimatization
    society, ranger, or authorized officer, be produced for inspection; and any person illegally in possession of skins is liable,
    on conviction, to a fine of £10, and to a further fine of £5
    for each skin found in his possession, and such skins shall be
    forfeited to and become the property of the Crown.

18. No person shall at any time have possession of any
    opossum-skin which does not bear an official mark thereon;
    provided, however, that it shall not be a breach of this regulation to have possession of any such skin--

(a.) Within one month from the date on which the same
was taken, if the same is lawfully taken in any of
the places mentioned in regulation 25 ; or

(b.) At any time within one month from the close of the
open season, if the same is lawfully taken during the
open season in any other place in New Zealand ; or

(c.) At any time within one month from the date of importation if the same is imported ;
and provided also that the Under-Secretary, Department of
Internal Affairs, may extend such periods subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose.

19. It shall be an offence for any person to perforate or
    otherwise stamp or mark an opossum-skin in such a way as
    to suggest that the appropriate official mark has been affixed
    by an authorized officer, and the offence shall be punishable
    by a fine of £50 in addition to forfeiture of the skin or skins
    concerned, and such skins shall, either upon the conviction of
    such person or if such person cannot be traced, be forfeited to
    and become the property of the Crown.

20. All opossum-skins imported into the Dominion, other
    than those in a manufactured state, must be stamped by an
    authorized officer with the appropriate official mark as proof
    of importation ; and every person importing skins must,
    within three days after the receipt of such skins, notify that
    officer. No royalty shall be payable in respect of any such
    skins:

Provided that no opossum-skins imported into the Dominion
shall be disposed of for gain unless they are sold in the manner
provided by regulation 7 and have been stamped with the
appropriate official mark to indicate that royalty has been
paid.

21. (1.) No person shall export or attempt to export
    opossum-skins without the consent in writing of the Under-
    Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs:

Provided that this shall not apply to skins made up as
coats, rugs, muffs, or articles of personal or domestic or
household use or ornament.

(2.) No person shall export or attempt to export opossum-
skins unless they have been stamped with the appropriate
official mark.

22. There shall be paid to the registered acclimatization
    societies in whose districts opossums were taken or killed

such proportion of the fees, fines, and royalties, as may be
decided by the Governor-General in Council.

23. (1.) The Minister of Internal Affairs may, by writing
    under his hand, authorize any acclimatization society, or
    the officers or servants of any such society, or any other
    person, to catch or take opossums for the purpose of distributing or exchanging the same in some other country or
    in some other part of New Zealand, or for any scientific or
    other purpose approved by the Minister.

(2.) Any such authority may permit the holder thereof to
enter upon a sanctuary or public domain for the purpose
of catching or taking opossums as specified therein.

(3.) Every such authority shall be subject to such conditions as may be specified therein.

24. (1.) Notwithstanding anything in these regulations, it
    shall be lawful at any time and in any acclimatization district for the occupier of any orchard registered under the
    Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, or for any bona fide
    employee of such occupier, to kill by any means not involving unnecessary cruelty any opossums in such orchard,
    or on any land within half a mile of such orchard, or elsewhere within the areas defined in the Second Schedule hereto,
    or for the occupier of any land within half a mile of such
    orchard, or for any bona fide employee of such occupier,
    to similarly kill opossums in the area occupied by such
    occupier ; provided that in any such case a return, in
    the form No. 6 in the First Schedule hereto, of the
    number of opossums so killed in any month shall, within
    seven days thereafter, be forwarded to the nearest Postmaster, who shall forward it to the Under-Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs; and provided further that the provisions of regulation 6 shall apply to any such occupier
    or his employee as if he were the holder of a license to take
    or kill opossums.

(2.) The skins of all opossums so killed may be disposed
of only as provided by regulation 7 hereof. In any such
case two copies of the prescribed notification or notifications relating thereto shall be sent to the broker, and the broker
shall forward one copy with his returns under regulation 14.
If the skins are required for personal use they shall be
dealt with subject to regulation 15 hereof.

25. Subject to the provisions of regulation 24, opossums
    may be taken or killed at any time within the areas defined
    in the Second Schedule hereto, or in any registered orchard,
    or on any land within half a mile of such orchard ; and it
    shall be unlawful to liberate or harbour opossums in any
    area defined in the Second Schedule hereto, or in any registered
    orchard, or on any land within half a mile of such orchard.

26. No person shall tan or otherwise preserve any opossum-skins unless the same bear the official mark ; and every
    person carrying on the business of tanner or skin-preserver
    receiving opossum-skins not bearing such official mark shall
    forthwith after his receiving same forward the name and
    address of the person from whom the skins were received
    to the Under-Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs.

27. (1.) Every person holding a license to take or kill
    opossums shall, on demand by any authorized person, produce
    such license, and after such demand if such license is not
    produced, or if the person gives a false name or place of
    residence or address, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
    £20.

(2.) For the purposes of this regulation an "authorized
person" includes all Justices, constables, rangers, officers of
the State Forest service, or officers of acclimatization societies,
proprietors or occupiers of land upon which any person may
be found in pursuit of opossums, and all holders of licenses to
take or kill opossums.

28. Any person authorized to issue licenses hereunder may
    refuse to issue a license to any person who within two years
    prior to the date of his application for a license has been
    convicted of any breach of any of these regulations or of
    any former regulations respecting opossums made under
    Part III of the said Act or under the Animals Protection
    Amendment Act, 1920.

29. Where the holder of a license hereunder has been found
    guilty of a breach of any of these regulations the Court may,
    if it thinks fit, revoke his license.

30. The Minister of Internal Affairs, on being satisfied that
    injury or damage to any land has arisen or is likely to arise
    through the presence of opossums on such land, may in
    writing authorize the owner or occupier of such land, or his
    servants, to take or kill such animals thereon subject to
    such conditions and during such period not exceeding three
    months from the date thereof as may be specified in such
    warrant.

31. Except as provided in the said Act or in these regulations, no person shall take or kill opossums, or sell opossum-skins, or have opossums or opossum-skins in his possession:

Provided that the Minister of Internal Affairs may authorize the keeping of opossums in possession subject to such
conditions as he thinks fit.