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as he thinks proper (except sub-section 1 of section 

 13) any person who requires such dispensation for 

 the purpose of scientific study. 



(3) Any permission or dispensation given here- 

 under may be withdrawn at any time. 



CONFISCATION OF COW AND SMALL IVORY. 



17. All cow ivory and elephant tusks weighing 

 less than 10 lbs. or such other weight as may be 

 notified from time to time are liable to be confiscated 

 and may be seized by any Magistrate, Police 

 Officer or Officer engaged in the Civil Adminis- 

 tration without adjudication of confiscation, subject 

 to a right of appeal to the Mudir or to a Magis- 

 trate of the first or second Class against the con- 

 fiscation. 



POWERS OF GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 



18. (1) The Governor-General may from time 

 to time by notice published in the Sudan Gazette 

 exercise all or any of the following powers (that is 

 to say) : — 



(a) Notify or prescribe any matter which is left by this 

 Ordinance to be notifiod or prescribed. 



(J) Declare a close time or close times during which any 

 wild animal or bird specified in such notice shall not 

 be hunted, captured or killed, nor the flesh thereof 

 sold or offered for sale. 



(c) Forbid or restrict the use of nets, pitfalls or other de- 



structive modes of capture. 



(d) Extend or limit any of the provisions of this Ordinance 



so as to include thoroin or exclude therefrom any 

 wild animal or bird spocified in such notice. 

 («) Revoke, alter or suspend any such notices. 



