Homing Pigeons Protection Act 1910 (NSW)

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Act No. 1, 1910.

An Act to provide for the protection of certain birds known as homing pigeons during their flights as hearers of messages from geographical point to point, or while under

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training, and at other times. [19/// Jnhj,

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Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative
authority of the same, as follows :—

1. This Act may he cited as the " Homing Pigeons Protection

Act, 1910 ."

2. " Homing pigeon " shall mean and include all pigeons used as bearers of messages or as racing pigeons, and which have affixed or attached to either or both legs a rubber or metal ring.

3 . Any person who shall intentionally or negligently shoot,

kill, disable, ensnare, or otherwise injure any homing pigeon, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the pigeon is a homing
pigeon, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction
to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

4 .    Any person entering upon any enclosed land or premises for

the purpose of unlawfully killing, wounding, disabling, ensnaring,
catching, taking, or in anywise injuring or destroying any homing
pigeon of which he is not the owner shall be liable on conviction to a

penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

5 . Any unauthorised person who shall remove or tamper with

any metal or rubber ring affixed or attached to either or both legs of

a homing pigeon shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

6. I f any person offending against this Act shall not, when thereunto required, give his name and address, or shall give a false name and address, to any person, or if any person without reasonable

excuse shall not, on request being made and production of reasonable

evidence of ownership, deliver up to the owner any homing pigeon,
he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

7.    All fines and penalties for any offences against this Act, and

all sums of money payable hereunder, may be recovered in a summary

way before a stipendiary or police magistrate or any two justices in a

court of petty sessions.

8. Any person convicted of an offence under section three
may be ordered by the court, in addition to the penalty, to pay to the

owner such sum as the court may deem to be the value of the pigeon.

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