Game Act Amendment Act 1911 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA...

ANNO PRIMO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

XXXIV.

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No. 23 of 1911.

AN ACT to further amend the Game Act,

1892.

[Assented to 16th February, 191.1.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Game Act Amendment Act, Short title.

1911, and shall be read as one with the Game Act, 1892.

2. If any person, after the expiration of ten days from the Within a certain period no person

coining into operation of any proclamation declaring to have in his possession the

(a) any close season generally throughout the State for any dead body of any

native game, or native game, etc.

(b.) that any bird or animal indigenous to -Western Australia Cf. 64 Vie. No. 7,

shall be at all times strictly preserved generally	s. 2.
throughout the State,

or after such period (if any) as may be fixed by the proclamation for the purposes of this section (whichever shall be the longer period) and whilst such proclamation remains unrevoked and in operation shall sell, buy, or have, in his possession or control the dead body of any such game or bird or animal, be shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds for each

1911, No. 23.] Game Act—Amendment. [1 GEO. V.

bird or animal, unless he shall prove that such game or bird or animal was imported from beyond the State or was lawfully killed within the State :

Provided that in the case of any such proclamation which shall have come into operation before the enactment of this Act, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply as if such procla- mation had come into operation on the enactment of this Act.

Railways Commis-

sioner may refuse 3. The Railways Commissioner may refuse to carry or to

to carry game,	allow to be conveyed on any Government Railway any such dead
etc., illegally in
possession of any	body which shall have been or shall be reasonably suspected to
person.	have been illegally bought or sold or illegally in the possession or control of any person, or as to which the consignor or proposed consignor or his agent shall not on demand furnish a statutory declaration that the same has not been illegally bought or sold or illegally in the possession of any person.

Interpretation. 4. In this Act, the word "body" includes the skin or any por-

Cf.1907, No.18, 6. 5. ti.on of the skin or body of any such game, bird, or animal as afore-

said.

By Authorily : FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.