Hunting and Game Administration Act

Exerpts


Ch. 1: Aim, etc.


Section 1

  1. The aim of the law is to ensure wildlife-populations rich in species and individuals and create foundation for a viable administration of this by
    1. to protect the wildlife, especially in the breeding season,
    2. to secure the quantity and quality of the habitats of the wildlife through establishment of wildlife reservations and by in other manners to establish, reestablish and protect the habitats of the wildlife,
    3. to regulate the hunting so that it is practiced after ecological and ethical principles and under attention to the consideration to protection of wildlife, especially of rare and endangered species.
  2. By the administration of the law weighing out the attention to the public recreational demands to the attention of protection of wildlife.


Section 2

  1. The regulations concerning wildlife of the law is for mammals, birds, including indigenous migratory birds. The regulations also apply for mammals and birds, set out by man or escaped human custody and have established wild reproducing populations in nature unless they traditionally are viewed upon as domestic animals.
  2. The laws regulation on hunting counts all acts, which by suitable means, is aimed at taking game, whether or not game is caught or killed in connection with the hunting.


Ch. 2: General gameadministration rules


Section 6

  1. With reference to the protection of wildlife or regulating the use of it the minister of environment can lay down rules about, here under prohibitions of
    1. setting out, catching and the keeping of game
    2. trade with and possession of wildlife and parts thereoff
    3. collection of, trade with, and possession of eggs from wild birds.
  2. The Minister of Environment can lay down rules for control and regristration of the keeping of wildlife, here under rules for the minister without order of the court can have samples taken from certain species of wildlife.
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  3. The minister of environment can lay down rules about that only persons or establishments, which by the minister have been given authorization can treat and nurse injured wildlife. In addition there can be laid down rules about that authorization can be denied or withdrawn.


Ch. 4: The Practice of Hunting Rights


Section 23

  1. The bringing down or putting to death of wildlife must only be done by guns.
  2. Raptors and owls must not be used for hunting.
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Ch. 9: Penalty etc.


Section 54

  1. Unless greater penalty is deserved by other legislation, punished by fine is the one who
    1. offending section..., section 23, subsection 1-3
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    2. omit to follow prohibitions or orders, made from the law or additional regulations laid down in result of the law, including orders to rectify an illegal circumstance.
  2. The punishment can increase to ordinary imprisonment or imprisonment in up to 2 years, if the contravention is commited intentionally or by severe negligence, and if the contravention have
    1. caused considerate damage to the interests the law intends to protect, according section 1, subsection 1 or caused risk for it, or
    2. achieved or aimed at economical advantage for the person in question or others.
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  3. Hunting practiced against the law or regulations made as consequence of the law, is punished, even if the hunt did not result in the killing or capture of wildlife.
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  4. In cases concerning offence of the law and of regulations laid down in consequence of the law ransacking can be done according the rules laid down by the law of administration of justice.

Section 55

  1. By judgment for intentionally offence of the regulations mentioned in section 54, subsections 1 and 3, deprivation of the right to have or acquire hunting license, if the commited count gives reason to assume that the person in question will not practice hunting in a justifiable manner in the future. The same counts by judgment for intentionally causing harm to another person or caused risk for it and by judgment for intentional cruelty to animals according the law of protection of animals.
  2. Deprivation of the right to a hunting-license is for a period of 1 to 5 years counted from the final judgment, or until further notice. It the right is deprived until further notice, a case about further deprivation can be brought before a court of law after 5 years according the rules in the civil penal code section 78, subsection 3. Under certain circumstances, the minister of justice can grant permission to bring the case before a court of law before the five year time is up.
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