So much of the eleventh section of the said Act as enacts that no native game shall be hunted shot taken or killed in any part of the Colony except during the months of April May June and July in each year is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted that—No native game shall be hunted shot taken or killed in any part of the Colony except during such months as the Governor shall from time to time by Proclamation appoint in reference to the respective descriptions of native game within the districts mentioned in any such Proclamation and that the Governor may from time to time as he may think fit by Proclamation in like manner alter vary or annul any such Proclamation.

3 Proviso in lieu of section 12.

The twelfth section of the said Act is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted that—It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazette to declare that all or any of the provisions of the said Act or of this Act relating to native game shall be in force in such parts of the Colony only as he shall in and by such Proclamation define and from time to time as he may think fit by Proclamation in like manner to alter vary or annul any such Proclamation.

4 Section 16 repealed.

The sixteenth section of the said Act is hereby repealed.

5 Section 18 amended.

The eighteenth section of the said Act shall be read and taken to be subject to the following provisoes that is to say—Provided always that nothing in the said last-mentioned section contained shall prevent any person in bonâ fide occupation of any land not being waste lands of the Crown or some one person appointed by him from pursuing taking or killing game on such land or subject any such person to any penalty for so doing Provided nevertheless that such person or occupier for himself or for such person so appointed by him as aforesaid who shall so pursue take or kill game shall have taken out a license to kill game under this Act upon such land and every such license may be in the form in the Schedule to this Act and shall be issued by the Superintendent of the Province in which the person requiring the same shall reside or in which the land on which he shall desire to exercise such license shall be situated upon payment of the sum of one shilling to the Treasurer of such Province and shall be signed by the Superintendent or Treasurer and dated on the day when the same was actually issued and shall be in force from the day of the date thereof until the thirty-first day of July then next ensuing but no person shall be entitled to take out more than one license in any year under the provisions of this section.

6 Section 25 amended.

The twenty-fifth section of the said Act shall be read as follows—It shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize any person or persons to catch or take any such animals or birds or the eggs of any such birds for scientific purposes or for the purpose of distributing changing or turning out such animals or birds or the birds to be produced from any such eggs either in some other part of this Colony or in some other country Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize any person or persons to commit a trespass And provided further that no person or persons shall be deemed to be so authorized to catch or to take or shall catch or take any animals or birds or the eggs of such birds unless he or they can show a license so to do under the hand of the Governor and no such license shall in any case have any force or effect for a longer period than twelve calendar months from the date of such license.

7 Section 31 amended.

In addition to the persons in the thirty-first section of the said Act expressed to be authorized to demand production of the license of any person in pursuit of game all holders of licenses under the said Act or under this Act shall be deemed to be “authorized persons” within the meaning of the thirty-first section of the said Act.

8 Act to be read with “The Protection of Animals Act 1867.”

This Act shall be read with “The Protection of Animals Act 1867” referred to as “the said Act” and the provisions of the said Act for the definition of terms and expressions for the application of fees and fines for the recovery of penalties and for the delegation by the Governor in Council of any powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council and all other the provisions of the said Act not hereby repealed shall be construed and taken to apply to this Act in the same manner as if the provisions of this Act were incorporated in and formed part of the said Act.

9 Amendment in Schedule V.

The fifth Schedule of the said Act shall be read as if the words “wood pigeon” had been omitted therefrom.

Schedule License to kill Game on Land in the occupation of Licensee or by whom Licensee is appointed

[Name in full residence and occupation of licensee] having this day paid to the Provincial Treasurer the sum of one shilling pursuant to “The Protection of Animals Act 1868” is hereby licensed to kill game on the land in [his occupation] or [the occupation of] situate at bounded [here insert boundaries and description of the land in respect of which the license is issued] from the day of until the thirty-first day of July 18 .

(Signed)

Protection of Animals Act Amendment Act 1868