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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1945
Notice respecting Native and Imported Game
Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 23rd March, 1945.
THE attention of sportsmen and others is called to the following
provisions of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22,
and of the regulations thereunder, also of section 4 (1), Stock
Amendment Act, 1927.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT, 1921–22
SECTION 6 (3). Every reserve under the Scenery Preservation Act,
1908, shall be deemed to be a sanctuary under the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.
(4) Every person who unlawfully takes or kills any animal
within a sanctuary is liable to a fine of ten pounds for every such
offence, and to a further fine of one pound for each animal so taken
or killed.
Section 11 (1). No imported or native game shall be trapped
or taken by means of traps or by any other means than by hunting
or shooting, nor shall any trap, net, or snare be erected or set for
the purpose of such trapping or taking at any time whatever, except
by any person duly authorized under section thirty-one of the
Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.
Section 12 (1). No person shall kill or destroy any imported
game or native game, or shoot at, or attempt to shoot at, any
imported game or native game, with any swivel gun or pump gun,
or use any gun other than a shoulder gun.
(2) No gun shall be used for the purposes aforesaid the bore
of which is larger than the size known as number twelve at the
muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which exceeds ten pounds in
weight.
THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME REGULATIONS 1939
REGULATION 6
(1) 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; nor shall
such person use any cartridge of a length exceeding 2¾in. for the
purposes above described: Provided that nothing in this clause
shall apply to deer, moose, and wapiti.
(2) No person shall use or cause to be used any aeroplane in
connection with the taking or killing of imported game or native
game: Provided that this clause shall not be so construed as to
prohibit the use of any aeroplane for the purpose of travelling
either to or from a rendezvous.
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(3) No person shall use or cause to be used on any lake, pond,
lagoon, mere, estuary, or other dead water, any power-boat for the
purpose of taking or killing, whether by himself or by any other
person or persons at his direction, by driving, chasing, frightening,
or stalking any imported game or native game. For the purposes
of this clause “power-boat” means and includes any launch,
boat, canoe, or other similar craft propelled either wholly or partly
by mechanical power: Provided that this clause shall not be so
construed as to prohibit the use of any power-boat for camping
purposes, or for the purpose of travelling either to or from a rendez-
vous, or generally or to prohibit shooting from a moored power-boat.
THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT, 1921–22
Section 13 (1). No person shall use any cylinder for the
purpose of taking or killing imported or native game in any lake or
river; nor shall the apparatus known as a silencer be used on any
gun in the taking or killing of imported game or native game.
(2) No person shall use any live decoys for the purpose of taking
or killing imported game or native game.
Section 14 (1). No person shall take or kill any imported
game or native game during an open season in any district unless
he is the holder of a license under the Animals Protection and
Game Act, 1921–22, to take or kill imported game or native game
in such district during that season:
Provided, however, that the occupier of property, and any one
son or daughter of such occupier, may take or kill without license
on such property during an open season imported or native game
which may be taken in the acclimatization district in which such
property is situated, or the occupier may in writing appoint one
other person to shoot in his stead.
Section 15. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported
game or native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take or
kill imported game or native game on lands actually and exclusively
used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization
purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or on any land
excepted from the operation of the notification declaring an open
season for the district.
Section 39. Except as otherwise expressly provided, nothing
in any license or other authority under the Animals Protection and
Game Act, 1921–22, shall entitle the holder thereof to enter upon
any private land without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof
or upon any State forest or provisional State forest.
Attention is drawn to section 33, Reserves and other Lands
Disposal Act, 1938, relative to Crown lands at Farewell Spit in the
Nelson Acclimatization District, and to an Order in Council issued
under that section on the 13th day of December, 1938, and appearing
in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st idem at page 2820, relative
to certain tidal flats adjoining such Crown lands.
STOCK AMENDMENT ACT, 1927, SECTION 4 (1)
Every person commits an offence and is liable to a fine of five
pounds who, without the authority of the occupier, goes upon any
private land with dog or gun and disturbs any stock depastured
thereon.