Regulation to protect wildlife (No. 5 of 1962)

JOINT REGULATION To protect wil• life. Joint Regulation No. 5 of 1962 was published in Condominium Gazette No. 215 and is reprinted as amended by the following Joint Regula tions 10 of 1970 Condominium Gazette No. 294 I 3 of 1971 Condominiwn Gazette No. 304 MADE by the British and French Resident Commissioners under the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 2 and Article 7 of the Anglo French Protocol of 1914. I. Joint Regulation No. 4 of 1938 is hereby repealed. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, wound, capture or take the eggs of any bird of the following species without first having obtained a permit to do so from the Chief Condominium Agricultural Officer Australian Dabchick Padiceps nol'aehollandiae /eucostemes \Vhitc-browcd Rail Po/iolimnas cinereus tannensis Australian \Vhite-cye<l Duck Nyroca australis extima Barn Owl Tyta alba i11terposita Santa Cruz Ground Pig-:on Ga/licolumba sanctaecruci.r Green Palm Lorikcet Vini Palmarium (charmosynopsis) Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher Ha/cyo11 farquhari Thicket Warbler Cic/1lornis whillleyi Mountain Starling Aplonis santovestris White-bellied Honey-cater G11adalca,1aria notabilis Blue-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura trichroa cya11ifro11s Red-headed Parrot-Finch Erythrura cyano1'ire11s efatensis Red-headed Parrot-Finch Erythrura cya11orire11s regia Red-headed Parrot-Finch Erythrura cyanoJ1irC'11s serena [Por=ana tabuensis (Sooty Rail) Neola/age banksiana (Buff-bellied Flycatcher)] J. 1: -,it..1li b..: unlawful for any person lo kill, wound, capture or take the eggs of any of the following species during the nine months extending from 1st September to 31st May Black Duck \also known as Australian Wild Duck) Anas superciliosa pelewensis (4. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, wound, capture or take the eggs of any of the following species during the period extending from 1st July to 31st March. No. S of 1962. J.R. No. 10 of 1970. J.R. No. 10 of 1970. Pacific Pi~eon }Nautou Ducu/a pacifica Baker's Pigeon Ducu/a bakeri White-throated Pigeon Columba vilie11sis Red-b.!llied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus greyii Tanna Fruit Dove Ptilinopus Tannensis Rufous-brown Pheasant Dove Macropygia mackinlayi Green-winged Ground Pigeon Chalcophaps lndica Megapode or Incubator Bird Megapodius Freycinet] [Australian Grey Duck Anos supercilios Grey Teal Anas gibberifons) [(2) The Resident Commissioners may by Joint Rules pro hibit thr: 1H!!1ting nf 0nc 0r more of thcs, ~ •:;-i,~c-i-.:s, O1:i certain bb;1·,'.,,, for a period Jong enough lo permit the re-establishment of the population of that or those species. (3) During the period from 31st March to 1st July in each year, the killing of more than ten birds of the same species in any one day, (a) by any one person using any firearm or firearms requiring the fasue of a firearms permit; or (b) by the use of any firearm requiring the issue of a firearms permit whether used by one person or more than one person shall be unlawful.) 5. {----]. [6. It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to sell, attempt to sell, buy or export any of the birds the subjects of sections 3, 4 and 5 of this Regulation.] 7. Hunting at night shall be unlawful throughout the Group at all times and in respect of all species of birds. 8, It shall be unlawful for any person to import or purchase any trap, net or other device designed for the capture of birds without first having obtained a permit from the Chief Condominium Agricultural Officer. 9. (I) Any person who wishes to obtain a special permit to hunt or capture birth ;i -.; provi<le<l for in sections :! and 8 of this Regulation shall make written application to the Chief Condominium Agricultural Officer. (2) Every such application shall indicate the species chosen, the number of birds in each species, where they are to be sent, the purpose for which it is desired to kill or capture them and the method of capture or slaughter that it is proposed to employ. (3) A charge shall be made for each specimen killed or cap tured and the amount of such charge shall be fixed by Joint Rules. J.R. No.13 of 1971. J.R. No.10 cf 1970. J.R. No. 11 of 1971. J.R. No. 10 of 1970. 10. The Resident Commissioners may make Joint Rules for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Regulation. 11. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Regulation shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £Stg. 50 or its equivalent in francs at the current rate of exchange or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 8 days or to both such fine and im prisonment. 12. Any weapon, trap, net or other device used in contraven tion of the said provisions may be confiscated and disposed of as the Court shall direct. [13. {I) The British and French District Agents, all officers of J.R. No. 10 the British and French Police Forces, officers of the Condominium of 1970. Agricultural Department, officers of the Customs Department, and any person expressly appointed a voluntary game warden for this purpose by the Resident Commissioners, shall be responsible for the enforcement of this Regulation. (2) Any person appointed a voluntary game warden for the purposes of this Regulation, may report the suspected commission of an offence to any member of the other classes of persons respon sible for the enforcement of this Regulation, or in accordance with paragraph (a) of Rule I of the Rules of Procedure for Courts or First Instance made by the Joint Court on the 29th day of April, 1927.] 14. This Regulation may be cited as the Joint (Wild Bird Protection) Regulation No. 5 of 1962 and shall have effect from the date or signature. Made at Vila this 5th day or June 1962. M. DELAUNEY The Resident Commissioner for the French Republic. J. S. RENNIE Her Britannic Majesty's Resident Commissioner.