THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIEE 



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_ 6. — (1.) All licences issued under this Ordinance or under the 

 principal Eegulations shall expire on the 31st day of March next 

 after the date of issue. 



(2.) The provisions of this section shall not apply to licences 

 now in force, nor to fourteen-day licences issued to a public officer. 



(3.) The Commissioner may, on the expiration of licences now 

 in force, issue to the holders thereof, if they desire to renew their, 

 licences, temporary licences of the same class expiring on 

 3lst March, at such fees and with liberty to hunt, kill, or 

 capture such number of animals mentioned in the third and 

 fourth Schedules, as the Commissioner may think fit. 



7. — (1.) Ostrich eggs, heads, horns, bones, skins, feathers, or 

 flesh of any non-domesticated animals mentioned in the Schedules 

 to the principal Eegulations may be sold in the following cases 

 and under the following conditions : — 



(a.) If they form part of the estate of a deceased person, 

 by the Administrator-General or personal representative of such 

 deceased person, with the consent of the Court granting probate 

 or administration, and on payment of such fee as the Court directs, 

 not exceeding 20 rupees. 



(b.) If they have been forfeited, by the order of the Commissioner 

 or of the Court by which they have been declared to be forfeited. 



(2.) The purchaser shall in each case lie given a certificate 

 specifying the articles and declaring that they have been lawfully 

 sold under the provisions of this Ordinance, and such certificate 

 shall be evidence that the purchaser has not obtained the goods in 

 contravention of the principal Eegulations. 



8. Any person who is found in possession of any cow ivory, 

 shall, unless he prove that the ivory was not obtained in breach 

 of the principal Eegulations, be guilty of an offence against this 

 Ordinance. 



9. The Commissioner may by Proclamation remove any 

 animals from any of the Schedules to the principal Eegulations. 

 Such Proclamation may apply to the whole of the Protectorate, or 

 to any province, district, or other area. 



10. The Schedules annexed to this Ordinance shall be sub- 

 Btituted for the third and fourth Schedules to the principal 

 Regulations. 



11. Any landholder, or his servant, finding an animal mentioned 

 in the Schedules to the principal Eegulations spoiling his crops or 

 doing damage to his holding, may kill the same if such act is 

 necessary for the protection of his crop or holding, but he shall 

 give notice thereof to the collector of the district without delay, 

 and the head, horns, tusks, and skin shall be the property of 

 His Majesty, and shall be dealt with as the collector may direct. 



12. Animals mentioned in the Schedules to the principal 

 Regulations killed or captured by the holder of a licence under 

 the principal Eegulations upon private land, at the invitation of 

 the occupier, shall not count towards the number of animals that 

 person is entitled to kill under his licence. 



