Wild Animals Preservation (Licences) Regulations, no. 12 of 1916

The Wild Animals [CAP. 152 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION"' Wild Animuls Preservntio11 (Licenses) Regulations 4721 Hegulntions 12 of 1916, 47 of 1''18, 34 of 1919,Sof 1Q25 JS of 1928'. 7 of 1. These regulations may be cited as the Wild Animals Preserv::ition citntion. (Licences) Regulations. Licences 2. Licences under section 23 of the Law may be issued by any Local Government Secretary, officer, Magistrate or officer of the Forestry Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and shall be in the forms set out in the First Schedule. Grnnt of licences.First 3.(1) A resident non�Nigerian's licence or a visitor's licence maybe Schedulr renewed on the payment of the fees following- (a) resident non-Nigerian's licence-monthly renewal, fifty kobo. Fonn A. (h) visitor's licence-monthly renewal, two hundred and twenty-five naira. Form 1t • No Regulations have been 11111de under section 50 to replace tbesc regulations which were made under section 18, 22 and 43 o[ the Repealed Cap. 133 Laws of Eastern Nigeria, 1963. These regulations remain valid hy virtue of section 20 of the Intaprclation Lnw(Cap. 71). 1931. 4722 CAP. 152] The Wild Animal\· Lost licence. Elephanl licence. Form E. S�ci:1! liccnc-e to kill rhinoccr� ,,� eland. Form F. (2) Such renewal maybe made on appli<.:atinn to any officer mentioned 11, the preceding regul:1tion who, on the receipt of the fee prescribed, shall endorse the fact of such renewal on the original licence. (3) A renewal licence does not entitle the holder to kill or captun: an1111nl" or birds in excess of the numba authoriud hy the original licc11ct·. 4. Any person whose licence has been lost or destroyed m:1y. on application to ,my officer authorized to issue the licence, and on sntisfying such officer that the licence hns been lost or destroyed, be granted a duplicate licence for the remainder of the term of the original licenct• on payment of a fee of five naira. 5. A licence authorizing the holder thereof to hunt, kill or cnptu!i: elephant shall be in Form E :-.et out in the r-irst Schedule. G. (J) Any Local Government Secrernry may. on the ap1,liL.1l1l,n of the holder of a resident non-Nigerian's licem:c r a visitor's licence, grant 1 ,pecial licence authorizing such person to kill or capture one rhinon·10:-. and on1: eland. Such special licence shall not authorize tlte holder tn hunt ktll 01 capture an immature rhinoceros or clam.I, or female rhi11on1u, .111J d:md accompanied by her young. (2) Every such licence shall be in Form r set out in the first SdH.:d11k. :ind there shall be p.iid therefore a fee of two hundred nairn, or, if granted in respect of both rhinoceros and eland, four hundred nnirn. (3) The pason who obtains a special licence under this a:gulation shall produce to the oflicer granting the same his resident non- 1 1genan's or visitor's licence and such officer shall endorse thereon the I act to such special licence having been granted. (4) Every licem;e granted undc-r this regulation shall expire on thL 1111c date as the resident non-Nig1·rian's or visitor's licence held al till' time surh special licence is granted, and only one licence to kill a rhinoccro!-> and one licence to kill an eland shall be granted to such per:;on during the period of such resident non-Nigerian's or visitor's licence. 4728 Reg 11. CAP. 152] The Wild Animals THTRD SCHEDULE Free Disposal Permit Permission is hereby granted 10 ................................... of. .............................................................. . ivory to dispose freely of the following,------------- rhinoceros horn, vii.:-...... : ....... : ........................................................................................................................... .. (describe the ivory/rltinoccros horn) DATED this ............................................ day of ...................... . .......... ........................... 19 ....... .. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••·••······················· ................ , .............. . (Signature of person granting the permit)