Game (Preservation and Control) Act 1959

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Chapter number: 

198

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CHAPTER 198

THE GAME (PRESERVATION AND CONTROL) ACT.

Arrangement of Sections.

First Schedule Second Schedule

Third Schedule

Fourth Schedule Fifth Schedule Sixth Schedule

Schedules

Animals not to be hunted or captured throughout Uganda except under special permit.

Animals which may be hunted under basic and supplementary licences, and fees for supplementary licences.

Birds which may be hunted by the holder of a bird licence.

Game reserves.

Fees for licences.

African animals not occurring in Uganda, or of which only local species and subspecies are protected, which animals and the trophies thereof are protected by international convention.

 

CHAPTER 198

THE GAME (PRESERVATION AND CONTROL) ACT.

Commencement: 1 September, 1959.

An Act to consolidate the law relating to the preservation and control

of game, and to provide for matters incidental to and connected with

such preservation and control.

Commissioners’ note: The Game (Preservation and Control) Act, except for its Schedules, was repealed by the Uganda Wildlife Statute, Statute 14/1996.

SCHEDULES

First Schedule.

s. 5, Cap. 226, 1964 Revision.

Animals not to be hunted or captured without a special permit.

Part A. Animals not to be hunted or captured throughout Uganda except under

special permit.

  1. Aardvark

  2. AardwolfProteles cristatus

  3. Bat-eared fox

  4. Bee-eaters—Meropidæ (all species)

  5. Black rhinoceros—Diceros bicornis

  6. Caracal or lynx

  7. Cheetah—Acinonyx jubatus

  8. Chimpanzee—Pan schweinfurthi

  9. Colobus monkey—Colobus (all species)

  10. Cranes—Balearicidæ (all species)

  11. Crowned hawk eagle

  12. Egrets—Cosmerodius albus melanorhynchus Mesophoyx intermedius brachyrhynchus Egretta garzetta garzetta Bubulcus ibis

  13. Elephant

  14. Fish eagle

  15. Giant eland—Taurotragus derbianus gigas

  16. Giraffe—Giraffa cameloparadalis (all subspecies)

  17. Gorilla—Gorilla beringei

  18. Greater kudu (Female)—Strepsiceros strepsiceros bea

  19. Greater flamingo—