THE GAME AND FISH AMENDMENT ACT, 1964 



Section 1 of The Game and Fish Act, 1961-62 was amended by adding a 

 definition of fire-arm and by adding the word "hunted" to paragraph 14. 



Sections 18, 20, 22, 23, subsection 2 of section 80 and paragraph 22 of 

 section 83 were amended to bring the sections in line with the definition of fire-arm. 



Section 22 was also amended by deleting the words "for the purpose of 

 hunting" in the interest of proper law enforcement. 



Section 23 was also amended to permit regulations prescribing the calibre or 

 type of fire-arm used in night hunting of racoon. 



Section 27a prohibits the use of a set-gun in hunting game. 



Subsection 4 of section 34 was re-enacted to limit the refund of licence fees 

 to cases where the licence has not been used by reason of sickness, accident or 

 death and the Minister deems it just. 



Subsections 2 and 3 of section 36 were repealed and new provisions made 

 to authorize the appointment of licence issuers, who are deemed to be trustees for 

 the Crown of the licence fees and to prescribe a manual of licence-issuing instruc- 

 tions, for a breach of which an issuer is guilty of an offence. Also the provision 

 respecting blank licences was strengthened to prohibit the possession of a licence 

 a material part of which is not completed. 



Subsection 4 was added to section 37 to authorize the repeal of township 

 licensing by-laws and refunding of licence fees. 



Section 37b was added to the Act and provides that no person shall knowingly 

 possess any game hunted in contravention of the Act or the regulations. 



Subsection 1 of section 43 was strengthened by adding "offer for sale, purchase 

 or barter, or be concerned in the sale, purchase or barter of" after "sell" in the 

 second line. 



Section 47 was amended to permit the hunting at any time of birds released 

 under section 29 except pheasants and Hungarian partridge. 



Subsection ^ of section 64 was amended to prohibit the sale of brown, Kam- 

 loops and Aurora trout for stocking and brown trout for human consumption. 



Subsection 1 of section 71 was amended to reduce the period during which 

 a person may keep live game or a wolf in captivity without a licence from 14 to 

 10 days. 



Section 83 was amended to provide for regulations respecting coupons and 

 tags, calibre and type of fire-arms that may be used in night racoon-hunting and 

 prohibiting and regulating entry on Crown Game Preserves on Crown land. Para- 

 graph 24 of section 83 was amended to bring it in line with the changes made in 

 section 64. 



THE KILLARNEY RECREATIONAL RESERVE AMENDMENT ACT, 1964 



The name "Killarney Recreational Reserve" throughout The Killamey Recrea- 

 tional Reserve Act, 1962-63, was changed to "North Georgian Bay Recreational 

 Reserve". 



THE TREES AMENDMENT ACT, 1964 



Section 7a was added to The Trees Act to permit the payment by a county 

 to any municipality in which it owns forestry lands of an amount equivalent to the 

 taxes on such lands. 



Section 11 of the Act was amended to add a by-law for such payment to the 

 list of by-laws requiring approval of the Minister of Lands and Forests. 



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