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plaint or indictment in the name of the Province, and such 

 prosecution may be commenced in any county in which the 

 offender may be found. 



17. The following provisions shall have effect with respect Penalties, how 

 to summary proceedings for offences, fines and penalties ui der recoverable, 

 this Act : 



(1) The information shall be laid within two months after Procedure 



the commission of the offence. u p on prosecu- 



tions. 



(2) The description of an offence in the words of the said 

 Act or in any similar words, shall be sufficient in law ; 



(3) Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse or qualification 

 whether it does or does not accompany the description of the 

 offence in the said Act as hereby amended, may be proved by 

 the defendant, but need not be specified or negatived in the 

 information or complaint, and if so specified or negatived, no 

 proof in relation to the matters so specified or negatived shall 

 be required on the part of the informant or complainant ; 



18. The words "the said Act," wherever they occur in this "Said Act," 

 Act shall mean the Act for the protection of Game and Fur- R e e k sat. 

 bearing Animals, as amended by any subsequent Acts, or this c. 221 and 

 Act, and this Act shall be read with and as forming a part of amendments - 

 the said Act, and all laws inconsistent with the provisions of 



this Act are hereby repealed 



