OAMK PHOTECTION IX INDIA. 47 



Prohiijitory Paovisioxs. 



4. No firearms shall be used or carried for killing game, without 



license under this Act, or under the Indian Arms Act. 



5. The Local Government may, by notification, prohibit, within 



any local area, for any period, the capture, or killing, or 

 attempt to capture or kill : — 

 (a) All game, or any specified kind. 



(/>) All game, or any specified kind, by any special means or 

 manner, either absolutely or except in accordance with 

 a license under this Act. 



(i. (1) The Local Government may prohibit the capture or 

 killing (or attempt to capture or kill) of any fish, during 

 any part of the year, in any specified stream, or in the 

 headwaters of any specified river, or in any specified 

 part thereof. 

 (2) Any notification under this section shall be conclusive proof 

 of the matters stated therein. 



7. A Local Government may notify prohibition of the possession 

 or sale of all game or fish, within Municipal or Cantonment 

 limits, or in the importation of any kind of plumage of any 

 specified kind of game. 



Provisions as to Licenses. 



8. (1) Licenses shall be granted under this Act, by authorities 



empowered under it, save as provided under sub- 

 section (2). 



("2) A Local Government can authorise a Commissioner or, in 

 Madras, the Collector, under orders of the Governor- 

 General in Council, to grant licenses under this Act, for 

 the use or carrying of firearms for killing game, 

 through o\it the whole of British India. 



(3) Under rules framed by a Local Government, the Collector, 

 or any authority thereby empowered, may cancel any 

 license gi-n,nted under this Act : 



(a) When the holder has been convicted under this Act. 



(b) When any term of the license has been infringed. 



9. (1) In addition to conditions prescribed by a Local Government, 



every license shall be deemed to be subject to the conditions 



set forth in any notification in force for the time being 



under section 5. 

 (2) Every license shall specify : — 



(a) The area in which it is in force. 



\h) The instruments to be used, and in the case of a weapon 

 to which the Indian Arms Act (IX. of 1878) applies, 

 the person or persons by whom alone it may be used 

 or carried. 



