HUNTING LICENCES REGULATIONS

HUNTING LICENCES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 10.39

HUNTING LICENCES REGULATIONS

1st January, 1994

LEGAL NOTICE 145 of 1993 as amended by Legal Notices: 44 of 1996,

221 of 1997, 42 of 1999 and 2 of 2002.

The title of these Regulations is the Hunting Licences

Regulations.

(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of any other law,

no issue of a person shall shoot, or attempt to shoot, by any means

whatsoever, any game unless such person is in possession of a valid

hunting licence issued by the Commissioner, and such person

satisfies all the conditions specified in the licence and in any other

law.

(2) Any person who applies for a licence may be asked to sit

for a practical examination to determine his knowledge of the use

and safe-carrying of firearms, the necessary protective measures

required for carrying a firearm; his ability to identify birds and his

knowledge of the regulations for the protection of fauna.

(3) Each type of hunting licence shall be issued to an applicant

who is covered by an insurance policy against third party risks to

persons or damage to property, and holds a recommendation from a

lawfully constituted society organisation representing hunters.

(4) Any person who wishes to renew the licence for the hunting

of birds must have a recommendation issued by a legally

constituted organization representing hunters, which is valid for the

year of renewal

Provided that any legally constituted organization which

represents hunters that shall grant the recommendation referred to

in this subregulation may only grant such recommendation to an

applicant who has become a member, or renewed his membership,

in the same organization, which issues the recommendation after

the same applicant has duly filled in and presented to the said

organization the form of the Permit for Hunting and Trapping,

Carnet de Chasse, valid for the previous year.

(5) Any legally constituted organization representing hunters

which grants the recommendation referred to in subregulation (4)

shall collect the forms of the Permit for Hunting and Trapping,

Carnet de Chasse and forward them to the Director, Environment

Protection Department, by not later than the 8th of May of each

year.