2000
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

(4) Licenses may be issued authorizing the holder thereof to take or kill imported game only, and shall be in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

(5) Licenses may be issued authorizing the holder thereof to take or kill native game only, and shall be in the form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto.

(6) The fee payable for a license to take or kill both imported game and native game shall be one pound (£1); for imported game only, one pound (£1); and for native game only, ten shillings (10s.).

(7) In any district in which, or in any part of which, hares have by the operation of any Warrant issued pursuant to section 8 of the said Act become imported game, licenses may be issued authorizing the holder thereof to take or kill hares only.

(8) The fee payable for a license to take or kill hares only issued under the last preceding clause hereof shall be ten shillings (10s.).

(9) A license issued under clause (7) of this regulation shall be in the form Number 2 in the Schedule hereto, save that for the words “one pound (£1)” shall be substituted the words “ten shillings (10s.).”

PROHIBITING SHOOTING GAME WITH CERTAIN KINDS OF GUN.

3. In addition to the prohibitions contained in sections 12 and 13 of the Act, no person shall kill or destroy any imported game or native game, or shoot at, or attempt to shoot at, any such imported game or native game with any automatic or auto-loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle, pea-rifle, or punt-gun: Provided that nothing in this regulation shall apply to deer, moose, and wapiti.

DISPOSAL OF FEES, FINES, ETC.

4. (1) Except where otherwise provided, all fees paid for licenses issued by a postal officer under the Act shall be paid into the Post Office Account, and shall be applied—

(a) In the first instance, in or towards defraying the cost of and incidental to the issue of licenses and any other expenses of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act; and

(b) The balance shall be paid to the registered acclimatization societies of the districts in which such licenses were issued.

(2) All fees paid for licenses issued by an officer of a registered acclimatization society shall be paid and belong to that society.

(3) All fines recovered under the Act shall be paid into the Public Account, and, except as provided in section 42 thereof, shall be applied—

(a) In the first instance, in or towards defraying the costs of and incidental to the recovery of such fines; and

(b) The balance shall be paid to the registered acclimatization societies in whose districts the offences were committed.

(4) If there is no registered acclimatization society in respect of any district, the balance aforesaid of all fees and fines applicable thereto shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(5) With respect to any district under the control of the Department of Internal Affairs, the balance of all fees and fines as aforesaid applicable thereto shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

REFUSAL TO ISSUE AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES.

5. (1) Any person appointed to issue licenses under the Act or regulations 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 the provisions of the Act or of any regulations made thereunder.

(2) Where the holder of a license has been found guilty of a breach of the Act or of any regulations thereunder, the Court may, if it thinks fit, revoke his license either wholly or for such period as it thinks fit.

SALE OF SWANS’ EGGS.

6. (1) The Under-Secretary may authorize any registered acclimatization society to take, within the district of that society, the eggs of the black swan (Cygnus atratus) and sell or otherwise dispose of such eggs.

(2) The Under-Secretary, in authorizing a society to take and sell such eggs, may specify the purpose to which the proceeds derived therefrom shall be devoted.

COOL STORAGE OF GAME.

7. (1) Any person authorized to take or kill or to sell imported game or native game or both may place in any freezing or cool chamber any such game so taken or killed, which may be kept in such chamber until required by the person depositing the same, but not beyond seven days after the close of the open season.

(2) When placing imported game or native game in a freezing or cool chamber the person placing it therein shall forthwith furnish the secretary of the acclimatization society in whose district the chamber is situated with a written statement containing his full name and postal address, the number of his license, or the authority under which the game was taken or killed, the name of the acclimatization district in which such license or authority was issued, the number of imported game or native game so placed in such chamber, and the date on which such game was placed therein.

(3) The manager or person in charge of such chamber shall furnish the secretary of the acclimatization society in whose district the chamber is situated with full particulars of the imported game or native game deposited therein, and shall permit the secretary or any person authorized by such secretary in that behalf to inspect such game at any time whilst it is in the chamber.

(4) The manager or person in charge of a freezing or cool chamber shall deliver any imported game or native game deposited therein in manner aforesaid to its owner in person only or to his written order, when authorized to do so by the secretary of the acclimatization society, and the secretary shall grant the necessary authority when required by the owner to do so.

(5) The manager or person in charge of a freezing or cool chamber in which imported game or native game is deposited shall keep a register in the form No. 4 in the Schedule hereto in which he shall enter the particulars specified therein in respect of all game deposited with him, and shall allow the secretary of the acclimatization society or other authorized officer to inspect the register at any time.

IMPORTATION, COOL STORAGE, AND SALE OF FROZEN GAME.

8. (1) No person shall import into New Zealand any frozen or chilled game without the consent of the Under-Secretary.

(2) The Under-Secretary may authorize any person to keep in cool storage game imported pursuant to subclause (1) hereof, or he may authorize the sale thereof under such conditions as he thinks fit.

(3) A register shall be kept in the manner provided in regulation 7 hereof of all game kept in cool storage pursuant to subclause (2) hereof, and the provisions of that regulation relating to the register provided therein shall apply as far as possible to the register provided in this regulation.

TAXIDERMISTS.

9. (1) For the purpose of this regulation, “taxidermist” means any person with whom any bird, animal, or reptile, or any part thereof, is deposited for the purpose of mounting, curing, or dressing.

(2) No person shall carry on business as a taxidermist without first taking out an annual license, to be called a taxidermist’s license, in the form No. 5 in the Schedule hereto. Such license may be obtained from the Under-Secretary on application in the form No. 6 in the Schedule hereto, upon payment of a fee of one pound (£1), and shall expire on the 31st day of March following the date thereof.

(3) A separate license must be taken out in respect of every branch of any business, but the fee for such separate license shall be ten shillings (10s.) only.

(4) If a license is issued after the 30th day of September in any year half only of the above fees shall be payable.

(5) Any license taken out under the provisions of any regulations hereby revoked and in force upon the coming into operation of these regulations shall enure as if it had been issued under these regulations on the day of the coming into operation thereof.

(6) All fees payable under this regulation shall be paid into the Public Account, and shall form part of the Consolidated Fund.

(7) Every taxidermist shall keep a register, in the form No. 7 in the Schedule hereto, in which he shall enter the particulars specified therein in respect of every bird, animal, or reptile, or part thereof, deposited with him, and any taxidermist or person who accepts or retains same without making the entries aforesaid shall be deemed to be unlawfully in possession thereof.

(8) No taxidermist shall accept or take delivery of any bird, animal, or reptile, or any part thereof, except from a person lawfully in possession of same, or an authorized agent of that person.

(9) Any authorized officer shall have the right at all reasonable times to call for and inspect any register or book kept by any taxidermist in terms of these regulations, and also to inspect, examine, and mark any bird, animal, or reptile, in possession of the taxidermist, who shall permit the authorized officer to make the inspection.