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APPENDIX. 

 IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE PROHIBITION BILL, 1908. 



The following are the principal clauses of the " Bill to 

 Prohibit the Importation of the Plumage and Skins of Wild 

 Birds," which was passed by the House of Lords on July 21st, 

 and read a first time in the House of Commons on July 22nd, 

 1908 :- 



1. Any person who, after the commencement of this Act, shall 

 have in his possession for the purpose of sale or exchange the plumage, 

 skin, or body, or any part of the plumage, skin, or body, of any dead 

 wild bird imported or brought into the United Kingdom on or after 

 the first day of January, 1909, which is not included in the schedule 

 to this Act, or otherwise exempted from the operation of this Act, 

 shall be guilty of an offence, and shall on summary conviction be liable 

 for the first offence to a penalty of not exceeding five pounds, and for 

 every subsequent offence to a penalty of not exceeding twenty-five 

 pounds, and in every case the Court shall order the forfeiture and 

 destruction of the articles in respect of which the offence has been 

 committed. 



2. The Privy Council may at any time, by notice published in 

 the London Gazette, add to, or remove from, the schedule to this Act 

 the name of any other foreign wild bird, and thereupon the provisions 

 of this Act shall take effect as if such bird had been included in or 

 removed from the schedule to this Act. 



5. (1) Subject to the provision in sub -section (2) of this section 

 nothing in this Act shall apply to 



(A) Wild birds imported or brought into the United Kingdom for use 



as articles of diet ; 



(B) Anything done by virtue of a licence issued from time to time 



by the Board of Trade under such conditions and regulations as 

 they may prescribe for the purpose of supplying specimens of 

 any birds not included in the schedule to any natural history 

 or other museum or for the purpose of scientific research ; or 



(c) The plumage, skin, or body, or any parts thereof, of any bird not 

 included in the schedule to this Act and forming part of the 

 wearing apparel being bona fide the property of and either actually 

 in the use of or accompanying any person entering the United 

 Kingdom ; or 



(D) The plumage of any bird not included in the schedule to this Act 

 imported or brought into the United Kingdom for use solely in 

 manufacture of flies for the capture of any species of fish. 



SCHEDULE. 



BIBDS EXEMPTED. 



1. Ostriches, 2. Eider Ducks. 



