DOMINION OF CANADA. 



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ONTARIO GAME LAWS 



LICENSES 

 ^ 46. Regulations. — The Lieutenant-Governor in 

 Council may make regulations, — 



(a) Terms of license.— Governing the issue of 

 licenses and permits, prescribing the terms and 

 conditions thereof, the pieriod for which the same 

 shall be in force, and the fees payable in resf>ect 

 thereof. 



(b) Special license to guest of resident. — 

 For granting without fee a special license to enable 

 a guest of a resident of Ontario to hunt and shoot 

 therein for a term not exceeding one week. 



(c) Reduced fee to residents of other prov- 

 inces. — For reducing the fee for non-resident 

 hunting license to a resident of any other Province 

 of Canada by providing that . such license may 

 be issued upon the same terms and conditions 

 upon which a similar license is issued under the 

 law of such other Province to a resident of On- 

 tario. 3-4 Geo. V. c 69, s. 46. 



47. — (i) Not to be issued to convicted 

 persons or their employers. — No license shall 

 be issued or permit granted to. any person con- 

 victed of any offence against this Act within two 

 years next preceding the date of application for 

 such license or to any person employing a person 

 so convicted. 



(2) Illegal transfer. — A license shall not be 

 transferable, and every person who buys, sells, 

 exchanges or in any way becomes a party to the 

 transfer of any license or shipping coupon, or in 

 any way uses or attempts to use a license or cou- 

 pon issued to any other person shall be guilty of 

 an offence against this Act. 



(3) Cancellation. — A licea^e may be cancelled 

 by the Superintendent, subject to appeal to the 

 Minister, tor a contravention by the license, or 

 by any person with his connivance, of this Act 

 or of the Regulations, or of any of the terms and 

 conditions of the license, notwithstanding that no 

 prosecution has been instituted or conviction had 

 in respect of such contravention. 



(4) EBect of conviction as cancellation. — 

 A conviction for an offence against this .Act shall 

 operate as a cancellation of every license held by 

 the person convicted. 



(5) License discretionary. — The issue of a 

 license shall be in the discretion of the Superin- 

 tendent subject to appeal to the Minister. 3-4 

 Geo. V. c. 69, s. 47. 



48. — (1) Hunting Licenses. — A license may 

 be issued to — 



(a) To non-residents. — ^A person not resident 

 in Ontario to carry guns, rifles and firearms and 

 to hunt and shoot, and the fee for such license 

 shall not exceed $50; 



(b) To residents, deer. — A resident of Ontario 

 to hunt deer, and the fee for such license shall 

 be $2: 



(c) To residents [for moose, reindeer or 

 caribou. — A resident of Ontario to hunt moose, 

 reindeer or caribou, and the fee for such license 

 shall be $5; 



(d) To non-residents, for fur-bearing ani- 

 mals. — A person not resident in Ontario to hunt 

 and trap fur-bearing animals, and the fee for each 

 license shall be $50. 



(2) Production of licenses on demand. — 

 Every person who has obtained a license under 

 this section shall at all times when hunting carry 

 such license on his person, and shall at all reason- 

 able times and as often as reasonably requested 

 produce and show the same to the Superintendent 

 or any inspector, warden or overseer or person 

 acting under the authority of any of them who 

 requests him so to do, and on failure or refusal 

 shall forfeit such license, and if found hunting or 

 taking any deer or other animals for hunting 

 which a license is required shall, on proof of failure 

 or refusal to comply with such request, be deemed 

 to have been guilty of an offence against this Act. 



(3) Ccufcns. to te attached to license. — 



There shall be attached to every license or one 

 more shipping coupons plainly marked with the 

 description of the game for hunting which the 

 license is issued, and there shall be printed or 

 stamped upon the coupon the date when it will 

 expire which shall not be later than ten days 

 after the last day of the open season for which the 

 license is issued. 



(4) Detachment and cancellation of. — 

 Where any deer, moose, reindeer or caribou, or 

 any part thereof, or any game for export under 

 section 45 is presented for shipment at a railway 

 station, steamboat landing or other point of ship- 

 ment a coupon shall be detached from the license 

 and signed by the person to whom the license is 

 issued, in the presence of the shipping agent or 

 clerk in charge of the office at such point of ship>- 

 ment, and attached to each deer or other animal, 

 or part thereof, or to the receptacle in which it or 

 any ducks are contained, and thereupon such 

 shipping agent or clerk shall write across the face 

 of the coupon the word "cancelled." 



(5) Contravention. — Any person, shipping 

 agent or clerk who contravenes any provision 3 

 this section, or uses a coupon after the expiry 

 thereof, or ships or assists in the shipment of any- 

 thing to which a coupon is required to be attached 

 without complying with the provisions of this 

 section shall be guilty of an offence against this 

 Act. 3-4 Geo. V. c. 69, s. 48. 



49. What licenses may be issued. — ^A license 

 may be issued upon such terms and conditions as 

 may be imposed by the Regulations authorizing. 



(a) Cold storage. — Any person engaged in the 

 business of cold storage of perishable articles to 

 keep any game during the open season, and during 

 the period in the close season from the end of the 

 open season in any year to the 16th day of Janu- 

 ary of the following year, and the fee for such 

 license shall be $25; 



(b) Game dealers. Sale in open season. — 

 Any person during the open season and during the 

 period in the close season from the end of the open 

 season in any year to the 1st day of January of 

 the following year to buy and sell, and, within 

 the limits of the municipality for which such license 

 is issued, to expose for sale game, other than fur- 

 bearing animals or the skins or fjelts of protected 

 animals lawfully killed and procured, and during 

 such period and up)on the conditions prescribed by 

 the Regulations game other than fur-bearing 

 animals or the skins or pelts of protected animals 

 imported into Ontario, specified and described in 

 the Regulations, and lawfully hunted, killed or 

 procured according to the law of the province, 

 state or country in which the same were killed or 

 procured, and the fee for such license shall be in 

 cities having a population of not less than 100.000. 

 $25; in other cities having a. population of not less 

 than 50.000, $10; in cities having a population 

 of less thao 50.000 and not less than 25,000, $5; 

 in cities having a population under 25,000 and in 

 towns, $2; and in villages and townships, $1: 



(c) Supply of game by hotels, etc. — A htoel. 

 restaurant or club to ?upply for or as part of a 

 Real served upon its premises any game lawfully 

 obtained during the period in which the same 

 may be lawfully kept in cold storage; and the 

 fee for such license shall be in cities having a 

 population of not less than 100,000. $10: in other 

 cities having a population of not less than 50,000, 

 $5; and in all other municipalities, $1. 2-4 Geo. 

 V. c. 69, s. 49. 



(d) Fur-dealer's license. — Any person to buy 

 and sell protected fur-bearing animals or the 

 skins or pelts of protected animals, and the fee for 

 such license shall be $2. 4. Geo. V. c. 46. 



30. Conditions of licenses for the Nepigon 

 waters. — Licenses may be issued authorising 

 fishing in the Nepigon River, Nepigon Lake and 

 adjacent waters subject to the following in addition 



