NOTIFICATIONS 



his satisfaction that the application for the license is for 

 bond fide sporting purposes. 



6. The seasons during which such licenses shall permit 

 hunting or shooting of game in the reserved or rented 

 forests or other areas specified in rule 4 comprised within 

 those limits, shall be duly notified, from time to time, 

 by the Collector of the Nilgiris and shall be clearly 

 endorsed on the licenses. 



7. The Collector may from time to time, by notification 

 in the District Gazette, declare all or any rivers, streams 

 or lakes closed against fishing during any year, or part 

 of a year within any part of the aforesaid scheduled 

 area and may similarly declare the whole or any part 

 of any reserved or rented forest, fuel or fodder reserve, 

 grazing-ground or area under special fire-protection within 

 such scheduled area, closed against shooting or hunting 

 for the whole or any part of any year. He may also 

 prohibit within the same areas and for like periods the 

 pursuit, killing or capture of any particular species of 

 game or fish. 



8. The poisoning of water, the dynamiting of fish, the 

 setting of cruives or fixed engines for the capture or 

 destruction of fish, the damming and baling of water 

 for the capture of fish, the netting of fish with nets, 

 the meshes of which are under i" square, and the setting 

 of traps and snares for the capture of game are absolutely 

 forbidden anywhere within the limits of the scheduled 

 area in which these rules are in force. 



9. Any breach of the above rules within any area 

 reserved under section 16 of Act V. of 1882 will render 

 the offender liable on conviction before a Magistrate, to 

 the punishment provided by section 21 of the Act and 

 any breach of the above rules in any of the above- 

 mentioned areas, other than those reserved under section 

 1 6 of the Act, will render the offender liable on conviction 

 before a Magistrate to imprisonment for a term which 

 may extend to one month or to fine which may extend 



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