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Wild Birds Protection Act


Published: 1913

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Wild Birds Protection (CAP. 472 1

CHAPTER 472

THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT

Arrangement of Sections
Section

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Enumeration of offences.
4. Close period defined for protection of birds in

Schedule B.
5 . Onus of proof on person found in possession, etc., of

bird, nest or eggs of such bird.
6. Offender must give name, etc.
7. General penalty.
8. Complaint, how brought.
9. Informer's half.

10. Offences committed on sea, how heard.
11. Bird or any part thereof forfeited.
12. Authority for scientific purposes, etc.
13. Governor-General may vary seasons.
14. Governor-General may amend Schedules.

SCHEDULE A.
SCHEDULE B.

WILD BIRDS PROTECTION

1. This Act may be cited as the Wild Birds Protection """.
Act.

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Interpretation.

Schedules A
and B.

Enumeration of
offences.

Schedule A.

Close period
defmed for pro-
tection of birds in
Schedule B.

Onus of proof on
person found in
possession, &c.,
of bid, nest or
eggs of such bird.

Wild Birds Protection

2. In this Act-

"wild birds" means any birds specified in Schedule A
and Schedule B.

3. Any person shall be guilty of an offence against
this Act who-

(1) wilfully kills, wounds or takes any wild bird speci-
fied in Schedule A;

(2) takes, removes, injures or destroys any nest or egg
of any such bird;

(3) exposes for sale, or knowingly has in his posses-
sion, any such wild bird, or any part of such bird, killed,
wounded or taken in Antigua and Barbuda, or the nest or
eggs of any such bird taken in Antigua and Barbuda.

(4) exports or attempts to export the skin or plumage
of any wild bird killed, wounded or taken, or the nest or
eggs of any wild bird taken in Antigua and Barbuda.

4. Any person who, between the first day of February
and the fifteenth day of July, both inclusive, in any year,
which period is hereinafter called the close season, know-
ingly kills, wounds or takes any wild bird specified in
Schedule B, or takes, removes, injures or destroys any nest
or egg of such bird, or knowingly has in his possession, or
exposes or offers for sale, or purchases any such bird or any
part of any such bird killed, wounded or taken, or the nest
or eggs of any such bird, taken during the close season, shall
be guilty of an offence.

5 . Where any person is proceeded against for expos-
ing or offering for sale, or having in his possession or
exporting or attempting to export any wild bird or any part
of any such bird, or the nest or eggs of any such bird, the
proof that the bird was killed, wounded or taken or the nest
or eggs taken without Antigua and Barbuda or otherwise
than during the close season, as the case may be, shall be on
such person.

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6. (1) In the case of an offence against this Act, any Offendermllst
give name, k c .

person may require the offender to give his name, descrip-
tion and place of abode.

(2) If such an offender does not truly give his name,
description and place of abode, he shall be guilty of an
offence in addition to that which he shall have been found
committing.

7. Every person convicted of an offence against this Generalpenalq.
Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars.

8. A complaint for any offence against this Act may Complaint how
be brought before- brought.

(1) the Magistrate of the district in which the offence
has been committed; or

(2) the Magistrate of the district in which the offender
resides.

9. The complainant or informer in any proceedings Infomer'shdf.
under this Act shall receive one-half of any penalty imposed
on and paid by the offender.

10. An offence against this Act committed on the sea
coast, or at sea beyond the limits of any district, may be sea,howheard.
inquired of, heard and determined in any district abutting
on such sea coast or adjoining sea.

11. Any bird or any part of any bird or the nest or Bird or any part
thereof forfeited.

eggs of any bird in respect of which a conviction takes place,
shall be forfeited.

12. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the scientific
Governor-General may by writing under his hand authorize purposes, kc.
any person for such time and subject to such conditions as
he thinks fit, for scientific or other purposes, to kill, wound,
or take any wild bird or to take or remove the nest or eggs of
any wild bird.

13. (1) The Governor-General may with regard to Go~emor-General
may vary seasons.

any wild bird specified in Schedule B, and with respect to

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the whole or any particular part of Antigua and Barbuda,
extend or vary, by proclamation, the prohibited time for
killing, wounding, taking, exposing, offering for sale, and
purchasing of any wild bird, or for taking, removing, injur-
ing or destroying the nest or eggs of any wild bird.

(2) After such proclamation, the penalties imposed by
this Act in respect of such wild bird shall, in Antigua and
Barbuda or in any part thereof as the case may be, men-
tioned in such proclamation, apply only to offences commit-
ted during the time specified in such proclamation.

(3) Such proclamation shall be published in the Gazette
and in a newspaper circulating in Antigua and Barbuda.

(4) A copy of the Gazette or newspaper containing any
such proclamation shall be evidence in all courts, and for all
purposes of the same having been made.

Govemor-General 14. The Governor-General may add the name of any
may amend
Schedules. bird to, or remove the name of any bird from, either of the

two Schedules.

SCHEDULE A S. 3(1)

BIRDS TO BE PROTECTED

Humming birds.
Yellow breast.
West Indian Canary.
Banana Bird.
Pea Whistler.
Blacksmith.
West India robin.
Chitty birds.
Gauldings.

Barbados black bird.
Loggerhead.
Coo-coo.
Tern.
Crane.
Kingfisher.
Sour sop bird.
Black witch.
Swan.
Mallard Ducks.

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SCHEDULE B S. 4

1A. White Crown pigeon. 6. Coots (red and white seal).
1B. Ramier Pigeon. 7. West Indian thrush.
2. Partridge. 8A. Whistler (West Indian tree
3. Wood dove. duck).
4. Ground dove. 8B. All wild ducks, other than.
5. Quail. Whistler (West Indian

tree duck).
9. Mountain dove.