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artificially constructed) any corn, wheat, barley, maize, or
other grain, or any products of grain, or any peas or any
other food, with the intention of attracting any game for the
purpose of hunting or killing that game.

(2) Every consent of Minister under subsection one of
this section shall be given by notice in the Gazette and may be
given only on the application of an acclimatization society.
Every such consent may relate to any specified kind of food,
and shall have effect subject to such conditions and apply with
respect to such waters as may be specified in the notice, and
may at any time be amended or revoked by the Minister by
notice in the Gazette.

(3) Every person commits an offence against this Act who
hunts or kills game in any place, knowing that within the
immediately preceding period of one month any such food
has unlawfully been cast, thrown, or placed in that place
with the intention of attracting game for the purpose of
hunting or killing that game.

(4) Every person commits an offence against this Act
who, in casting, throwing, or placing, or causing to be cast,
thrown, or placed or assisting in casting, throwing, or placing,
any such food in or near the margin of any water pursuant
to any consent given by the Minister under subsection one of
this section, fails to comply in any respect with any condition
on which that consent was given.

LICENCES

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 19

(1) No person shall hunt or kill game of any species during
an open season in any district unless he is the holder of a
licence under this Act to hunt or kill game of that species
available in that district during that season.

(2) Except as provided in subsection three of this section,
every person commits an offence against this Act who, not
being the holder of such a licence, hunts or kills any game
during any open season.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions
of this section, the occupier of any land, and the wife or
husband and any one son or daughter of the occupier, may,
during an open season, hunt or kill on that land without
a licence (but subject to all other restrictions imposed by or
under this Act) any game that may lawfully be hunted or
killed under a licence in the district within the boundaries of
which that land is situated.

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 20

Nothing in any licence to hunt or kill game shall authorize
the holder to hunt or kill game on any land actually and
exclusively used by any society for the purposes of this Act
or on any wildlife sanctuary, wildlife refuge, or closed game
area or on any public domain or recreation reserve within
the meaning of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1928 or
on any reserve within the meaning of the Scenery Preservation
Act 1908.

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 21

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, nothing
in any licence or other authority under this Act shall entitle
the holder to enter upon any land without the consent of the
occupier of the land.

SHOOTING OF GAME NOT IN FLIGHT PROHIBITED

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 22

(1) Subject to the provisions of sections fifty-three and
fifty-four of this Act, no person shall shoot at or attempt to
shoot at any game bird not in flight:

Provided that nothing in this section shall prohibit the
killing by shooting when not in flight of any game bird already
wounded by shooting.

(2) For the purposes of this section—

(a) A bird shall be deemed to be not in flight at any time
when it is alighting on or rising from any water or
land or any vegetation or structure in or on any water
or on any land and any part of the bird is in contact
with the water or land or vegetation or structure:

(b) Subject to paragraph (a) of this subsection, a bird
shall be deemed to be in flight at all times when it is
airborne, including times when it is soaring or
banking or swooping, and whether its wings are in
motion or not.

(Sections 53 and 54 of the Act referred to in (1) above
empowers the Secretary to, among other things, authorize the
taking or killing of game for certain purposes during the
period when it is not otherwise permitted).

SALE OF GAME OR EGGS OF GAME PROHIBITED

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 23

(1) Except with the prior consent of the Secretary, no
person shall—

(a) Buy or sell any game or the eggs of any game:

(b) For sale or for hire, gain, or reward, or hope thereof,
hunt or kill any game or have any game or the eggs
of any game in his possession:

(c) Induce any other person to hunt or kill game for the
purposes of sale or have any game or the eggs of any
game in his possession for the purposes of sale.

Provided that it shall be lawful for any person, pursuant to
the prior written authority of the Secretary, and subject to
such conditions as may be prescribed therein, to propagate
game or to buy or sell game held for the purpose of propa-
gating game or reared pursuant to any such authority, or to
take and sell or to buy the eggs of any game to which any
such authority relates.

SALE OF SHOOTING RIGHTS PROHIBITED

Wildlife Act 1953, Section 23

(2) No person shall sell or let for fee or reward any right
to hunt or kill game on any land or on any water on or
adjoining any land.

(3) Where any person for rent or other valuable con-
sideration grants a lease or licence of any duration of land,
on which or on water adjoining which game is usually preva-
lent, he shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection two
of this section to have let the right to hunt or kill game on
that land or on that water, as the case may be, if the Court,
having regard to all the circumstances of the case, is satisfied
that the sole or principal purpose of the lease or licence was
to confer on the lessee or licensee the right to hunt or kill
game on that land or water.

DISTURBING STOCK

Statutes Amendment Act 1947, Section 66 (1)

(1) Every person commits an offence and is liable to a fine
of fifty pounds who, without the authority of the occupier,
goes upon any private land with dog or firearm and disturbs
any stock depastured thereon.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1955.

S. W. SMITH, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Price 6d. BY AUTHORITY: R. E. OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON.—1955