Wild Animals and Birds Protection Act (Cap. 247)

LAWS OF SEYCHELLES WILD ANIMALS AND RTRDS PROTECTION ACT CHAPTER 247 REVISED EDITION 1991 PRINTED FORTHEGOVERNMENT of SEYCHELLES BY SPACE THE GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1991 ED) WlLD ANIMALS AND BlRDS PROTECTION ACT CHAPTER 247 [CAP 247 WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS PROTECTION ACT [14th April, 1961J ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Short title. 2. TheMinister may make regulations forprotection ofwild animals and birds. 3. Penalties. 4. Saving. S. Chapter 16 andregulations unaffected. 1. This Act may be cited as the Wild Animals and Birds Protection Act. 2(I) The Minister maymake regulations for the protectionof wild animals and birds. (2) Withoutprejudice to thegenerality ofthe foregoing power such regulations may (a) prohibit the shooting, killing, or taking of any wild animal or bird; (b) prohibit thepurchase, sale or exhibition forsaleofany wild animal or bird or of anywildbirds' eggs; (c) prohibit thetakingor destroying of or tampering with anywildbird's eggs or nest; (d) prohibit the exportation of any wild bird or of the plumage or skinthereof; (e) provide that contravention of or failure to comply with any regulations shall be an offence. (3) Any such regulation may be made to apply or not to apply Act J7 of1961. S.l. 95 of 1975. Act 23 of 1976. Shorttitle. 3123/1976. The Minister maymake regulations for protection of wild animals and birds. 5.1.95/1975. 1991 ED] WILD ANIMALS ANDBIRDS PROTECTION ACT [CAP 247 Penalties. 3123/1976. Saving. S.L 95/1975. 3/23/1976. Chapterand regulations unaffected. Cap. 16. 3/23/1976. (i) to any wild animal or bird specifically described in such regulation or to any class of wild animals or birds with or without exception or to all wild animals or birds with or without exception; (ii) to the whole or to any part of Seychelles; (iii) at all times or for a specified period or specified periods in any year or years. 3. Any person guilty of an offence against any regulation made under this Act shall on conviction be liable to a tine not exceeding R.],000 or to imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment. 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any regulation made under this Act it shall be lawful for any person, with leave previously obtained from the Minister, to shoot, kill, or take any wild animal or bird or to take the eggs of any wild bird or to export any wild bird or the plumage or skin thereof. 5. Nothing inthis Act shallbe deemed to affect the provisions ofthe Birds' Eggs Act and ofany regulations made under that Act. 2