(2) It shall be the duty of the weeds commissioner to: (c) Prepare and supervise the publication of bulletins (d) Conduct such investigations as may be necessary for (e) Answer all inquiries relating to noxious weeds and Governor 24. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power Lieutenant to make all regulations and prescribe all forms necessary to in Council may the administration of this Act and to make all provisions not regulations inconsistent with this Act which may be required for the better carrying out of the purposes thereof. PENALTIES. 25. Every inspector or other officer who neglects to perform Neglect of duty any duty placed upon him by this Act shall in respect of each by inspector instance of neglect be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding $25 and not less than $5 and costs. the Act 26. Violation of any provision of this Act for which no Violation o penalty is provided shall be an offence and the offender shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $50 and not less than $5 and costs. 27. Save as to moneys owing to the department or to Repeal any municipality thereunder and to the rights and remedies of the department or of such municipality in respect thereof under chapter 122 of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909 the said lastly mentioned Act is repealed. S. 3 amended S. 4 amended S. 4, par. 3, amended S. 5, par. 1, amended Bag limit Sec. 5, par. 2, amended S. 5, par. 3, amended 1912-13 CHAPTER 40 An Act to amend Chapter 128 of The Revised HIS [Assented to January 11, 1913.] IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the 1. Section 3 of The Game Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "for use" in the fourth line thereof and adding at the end thereof the words "and it shall be the duty of a game guardian to seize such gun and produce it as evidence at the time of the trial, after the conclusion of which it shall be returned to the owner upon demand." 2. Section 4 of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting the word "take" after the word "trap" in the first line thereof. 3. Paragraph 3 of section 4 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: "3. Any of the deer family whether known as the caribou, moose, elk, wapiti, deer or otherwise in that portion of Saskatchewan lying to the south of the line between townships 34 and 35 at any time, and in that portion of the province lying to the north of the said line between the first day of December in any year and the fifteenth day of November in the following year and in no case shall any person kill more than two in all of any such animals in any one season." 4. Paragraph 1 of section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the word "first" in the last line thereof and substituting therefor the word "fifteenth"; and adding there to the words "nor shall more than fifty birds of this family be killed by one person in any one day nor more than two hundred and fifty in a season." 5. Paragraph 2 of section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "first day of August" and substituting therefor the words "fifteenth day of September." 6. Paragraph 3 of section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the word "first" after the word "the" in the second line thereof and substituting therefor the word "fifteenth." amended 7. Paragraph 4 of section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended S. 5, par. 4, by striking out the word "first" in the last line thereof and substituting the word "fifteenth." amended 8. Paragraph 5 of section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended $. 5, par. 5, by striking out the word "first" where it first occurs in the third line thereof and substituting therefor the word "sixteenth" and by striking out the words "first day of October" and substituting therefor the words "fifteenth day of September." by adding proviso (New) field trials 9. Section 5 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding $. 5 amended thereto the following proviso: "Provided further the conducting of field trials by any Proviso re association organised for the purpose in connection with which blank cartridges only are used shall not be considered as hunting within the meaning of this Act if permission to conduct such trials has first been obtained from the minister." amended 10. Paragraph 4 of section 6 of the said Act is hereby S. 6, par. 4, amended by striking out the figures "1915" and substituting therefor the figures "1920." 11. Section 10 of the said Act is hereby amended by insert- S. 10 amended ing after the word "person" in the first line thereof the words "other than a holder of a nonresident's big game license"; and by striking out the figure "1" in the fourth line thereof and substituting therefor the figure "5." 12. Section 12 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the s. 12 repealed following substituted therefor: (New) "12. No person or persons shall buy and sell, deal or traffic Dealer's license in the flesh of big game or game birds without having first obtained a license in that behalf; and every such license shall be issued by the minister and shall be in force for the calendar year in which same is issued and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act and of any amendments thereto and the fee to be paid therefor shall be five dollars. "(2) Every such person or persons shall on or before the Returns thirty-first day of December in each year return said license to the department of agriculture with a statement showing the number of game animals and birds bought and sold during such year and from whom such were procured and such statement shall be sworn to by such person or persons or their authorised agent." New subsec 13. Subsection (2) of section 18 of the said Act is amended S. 18 amended by striking out the figure "2" and substituting therefor tions (7), (8) figure "5." (2) Section 18 of the said Act is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following subsections: and (9) added Big game license to be returned Penalty Complimentary permits S. 31 repealed New section substituted Act applies to S. 33 amended "(7) Every holder of a big game license shall wear while hunting a complete outer suit of some white material such suit to include white cap or tuque. "(8) Every person who while hunting or apparently hunting any game shoots at or wounds any other person whether by accident, mistake or otherwise under circumstances which would not constitute a crime under the provisions of The Criminal Code of Canada shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not less than $500 or more than $1,000 and in default of the payment of said fine to a term of imprisonment of not more than six months; and any license under this Act which may be held by the said person shall be revoked and cancelled and no such license shall for a period of ten years after such conviction be issued to such person. "(9) Every person to whom a big game license shall have been issued in any year shall immediately after the close of the open season for the killing or taking of the animals mentioned in section 4 of this Act return such license to the department of agriculture accompanied by an affidavit sworn before a justice of the peace or a commissioner for taking affidavits showing the total number and sex of each animal killed or taken by him during the period mentioned in such license. "(10) Any person who in any year fails or neglects to return a license issued to him under the provisions of this section within thirty days from the time specified for the return thereof together with the required affidavit or other particulars shall (in addition to being liable to the penalty provided in section 25 of this Act) not be granted a similar license in the next succeeding year. "(11) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section his Excellency the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada or the Premier thereof or the Lieutenant Governor or Premier of any of the provinces of Canada or other distinguished visitors to Saskatchewan or members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police or game guardians appointed under the provisions of this Act may be granted complimentary permission to hunt or shoot within the limits of the province and in accordance with the provisions of this Act upon application therefor to the minister of agriculture who may issue such a permit." 14. Section 31 of the said Act is repealed and the following substituted therefor: "31. This Act shall apply to all Indians in Saskatchewan whether resident upon a reserve or not with the exception of such Indians as may be exempted therefrom from time to time by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council." 15. Section 33 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "are hereby proclaimed" in the third line thereof and substituting therefor the words "and such other areas as may be hereafter constituted Dominion forest reserves or may be from time to time specified and determined by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council are hereby declared." 16. Paragraph 2 of section 9 of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting the words "nor shall any ducks, geese or other water fowl be hunted, taken or killed from any sail boats, yachts or launches propelled by steam, gasoline or electrical motive power" after the word "therefor" in the last line thereof. |