HUNTING AND INLAND FISHING
DETERMINATION FOR ADAPTING SEASONS
Does the law provide for how and when any type of hunting/fishing (SUBSISTENCE, COMMERCIAL, SPORT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, OTHERS) season must be set and updated?
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Section 77 (extract) -
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, after consultation with the Natural
Resources Board and the conservation committee concerned, by notice in a statutory instrument— [...]
(d) specify periods during which any animal specified in such notice may not be hunted in the area of an environment committee.
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Does the law provide for any type of hunting/fishing (SUBSISTENCE, COMMERCIAL, SPORT, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, OTHERS) day/night time limitation?
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Section 18(2) (extract) - Except in accordance with a permit issued by the Director, no person shall within the Parks and Wild Life Estate, hunt any animal by night […]
Does the law provide for stakeholder participation in decision-making on the hunting/fishing season/time?
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If so, does the law specifically provide for participation by women, youth and marginalized/vulnerable groups for the determination of hunting/fishing season/time? How?
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What kind of sanctions are imposed in case of offences (criminal, administrative) related to the hunting/fishing season/time?
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Section 77 - extract
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, after consultation with the Natural
Resources Board and the conservation committee concerned, by notice in a statutory instrument— [...]
(d) specify periods during which any animal specified in such notice may not be hunted in the area of an environment committee.
[...]
(5) Subject to subsections (6) and (7), no person shall— [...]
(b) hunt any animal or pick any plant or permit any other person to do so in contravention of a notice made in terms of paragraph (b) or (d) of subsection (1).
(14) Any person who contravenes subsection (5) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level six or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
