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THE WILDLIFE REGULATIONS 1955
Licences and Licence Fees
6. Every applicant for a licence shall furnish his true full
name and usual address to the person to whom the application
is made, and that information shall be set out in the licence.
7. Every licence shall before issue be signed by the issuing
agent by whom the licence is issued or by some person authorised by him to sign on his behalf.
8. No licence shall be valid unless it is in the proper form
and has been completed in accordance with regulations 6
and 7 hereof and signed by the applicant, who shall, when
those conditions have been complied with, become the
licence holder for the purposes of the Act and of these regulations.
9. (1) Where any person commits a breach of the Act or
of these regulations or of any notification by the Minister
under the Act, the Court in its discretion may, in addition
to imposing a fine, declare void and of no effect any licence
of that person, and the convicted person shall be such a case forthwith surrender the licence to the Court.
(2) The Court in its discretion may also, in addition to
any other penalty, make an order prohibiting the issue of a
licence to that person for any period not exceeding two years,
and the person in respect of whom any such order is made
shall not apply for or otherwise obtain any licence during
that period. Any licence obtained by any such person during
that period shall be void and of no effect.
12. Where under the provisions of section 61 (2) of the
Act any person purporting to be the holder of a licence
under these regulations has produced the licence to an authorized person (as defined in section 61 (3) of the Act), he
shall, if required by that authorized person, make and give
legibly and clearly a specimen signature for comparison with
the signature of the holder as shown on the licence.

Restrictions on Methods of Taking Game
18. (1) No person shall use any artificial decoy for the
purpose of hunting or killing game, unless that decoy is
securely anchored.
(2) No person shall place any artificial decoy within 60
yards of any other artificial decoy already set out by any
other person.
(3) Every person using artificial decoys shall prevent them
from spreading over an area greater than 30 yards square and
shall prevent any of them coming within 60 yards of any
other artificial decoys already set out by any other person in
conformity with subclauses (1) and (2) of this regulation.
19. No person shall hunt or kill game while occupying any
stand, hide, shelter, maimai, mudhole, loo, louvre, or position
(hereinafter referred to as a stand) which has been duly
claimed by any other licence holder in accordance with the
following provisions:
(a) A stand may be claimed by the planting thereon, subsequent to such time on such day as is decided by
the society, of a stake having either a board or an
identifying label attached having plainly marked
thereon the name and the address of the claimant
and the number of his licence:
(b) No person shall claim more than one stand:
(c) No stand shall be claimed within 100 yards of a stand
which has already been duly claimed by any other
person, except with the consent of the last mentioned
person:
Provided that any stand not occupied by the claimant within one hour after the opening hour of shooting in that district as prescribed by the Minister's notification may be
occupied on that day by any other licence holder:
Provided further that nothing in this regulation shall be
deemed to affect in any way whatsoever the rights of the
occupier of the land as defined in section 19 (4) of the Act.
20. No person other than the occupier shall shoot within
100 yards of an occupied stand, except with the consent of
the occupier.
21. For the purposes of section 18 (1) (c) (iii) of the Act,
the magazine of every automatic or auto-loading or repeating
shotgun used for hunting or killing game shall be so adjusted
that the gun is incapable of holding more than two shells, as
follows:
(a) In the case of an automatic or semi-automatic or autoloading shotgun with a tubular magazine—
(i) By inserting a metal or wooden filler at the
muzzle end of the magazine of such dimensions that

it cannot be removed without prior removal of a
metal pin set transversely through the magazine and
riveted at both ends: or
(ii) By inserting a metal pin set transversely
through the magazine and riveted at both ends:
(b) In the case of a repeating shotgun with a tubular magazine, by inserting a metal or wooden filler at the
muzzle end of the magazine of such dimensions that
it cannot be removed without the prior removal of
a metal pin set transversely through the magazines
and riveted at both ends:
(c) In the case of a repeating shotgun with a box magazine, by inserting a metal pin riveted at both ends
and set transversely across and through the magazine:
(d) In the case of any automatic, semi-automatic, autoloading or repeating shotgun of any type other than
those specified in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of
this regulation, it shall be rendered incapable of
holding more than two shells by a method which
will not allow of a change in the field.

Freezing Chambers and Canneries
22. In this Part of these regulations—
"Freezing chamber" means any freezing chamber, cool
store, refrigerating works, cannery, or other plant or premises
(not being a private dwellinghouse) where any game is frozen,
canned, or otherwise preserved or treated or stored:
"Open season" includes the first three days next following
the close of an open season.
24. No person shall place, or cause to be placed, in any
freezing chamber any game except during the open season
for that game in the district in which that game was hunted
or killed.
25. No person shall place or keep, or cause to be placed or
kept, any game in any freezing chamber except in accordance
with the following conditions:
(a) The number of game which may at any one time be
so placed or kept, or caused to be so placed or kept,
by any one person shall not exceed twenty head in
the aggregate:
(b) No game from which the legs have been removed shall
be so placed or kept, or be caused to be so placed or
kept:
(c) No game shall be so placed or kept, or caused to be so
placed or kept, unless there is affixed or tied thereto
a label on which the following particulars are
legibly written:
(i) The name and the address of the owner of
the game:
(ii) The date on which the game was placed in
the freezing chamber:
(iii) The number of the game licence (if any) of
the owner of the game:
(iv) If the owner of the game is not the holder of
a game licence, such particulars as will indicate the
means or manner in which ownership was acquired:
(v) The name of the acclimatization district in
which the game was taken.

Taxidermists
29. No person shall hold in possession for the purpose of
mounting, preserving, or curing any wildlife included in the
First Schedule or Third Schedule to the Act, unless the wildlife has been taken or killed in the open season only for that
wildlife or under the written authority of the Secretary. That
authority shall be retained by the person in possession of the
wildlife, and shall be produced on demand to any officer of
the Department.
NOTE: The wildlife included in the First Schedule or Third
Schedule of the Wildlife Act 1953 means all the game birds.

General
44. Every person commits an offence who commits a breach
of or fails to comply with any provision of these regulations,
and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
£50, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be
liable.
Dated at Wellington this 28th day of April 1960.
W. T. ANDERTON, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Price 6d.
BY AUTHORITY: R. E. OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1960

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