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constables) to a moiety of the penalty, and indemnifies witnesses who may have 

 participated in the offence. 



Note. This Act is intended to prevent the wholesale 

 destruction by poison of animals and birds, whether game 

 or not, and to avert the danger such operations cause 

 to human life. It does not affect the Game Act, except in 

 Section 3, which adds to the scope of the enactment. 

 Further, by its preciseness, it leaves many opportunities 

 for destroying vermin, in whatever shape, and does not 

 interfere with such farming operations as comprise the 

 use of poisonous solutions, &c., for various purposes. 



(6.) THE POISONED FLESH PROHIBITION ACT. 



This Act prohibits, under a penalty of ^"10, the placing in or upon land any 

 poisoned flesh calculated to destroy life, but permits the use of such in dwelling 

 houses, ricks, and inclosed buildings, yards, &c., for the destruction of vermin. 



(7.) THE GUN LICENCE ACT, 1870. 



Section I. This Act may be cited as the Gun Licence Act, 1870. 



Section 2. The term " gun" to include a firearm of any description, an air-gun, 

 or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or missile can be discharged. 



Section 3. Licence to use or carry a gun to be lew. 



Section 4. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue to have management of the 

 duty and licence. 



Section 5. Licence shall be dated on day of issue, and expire on the jist 

 March next. 



Section 6. Register of licences to be kept, and to be open for inspection by 

 any justice of the peace or police officer, or duly appointed person. 



Section 7 imposes a penalty of 10 for carrying or using a gun without a licence, 

 elsewhere than in a dwelling house or the curtilage thereof, with the following 

 exceptions : 



(a) Persons in the Army, Navy, Volunteer service, constabulary or other 



police, when engaged in performance of their duty or at target 

 practice. 



(b) Holders of game licences. 



(c) Persons employed to carry a gun for the use of the above only. 



(d) Occupiers of any lands using gun to kill vermin or scare birds, and 



also persons so doing by order of any holder of a game licence. 



