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• 13 (1) No person shall ship, transport or offer for shipment or transport a package or container of any kind that contains a migratory bird or a nest or egg thereof unless the exterior of the package or container is clearly marked with the name and address of the shipper, the number of any permit under which the birds, nests or eggs were taken and an accurate statement of the contents of the package or container.

• (1.1) Subsections (1) and 10(3) do not apply to a person travelling in a private conveyance who is transporting the carcass of a migratory game bird that he or another occupant of the private conveyance has taken under the authority of a migratory game bird hunting permit.

• (2) Subject to subsection (1), no person shall ship or transport carcasses of migratory birds taken under the authority of a migratory game bird hunting permit unless

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  • (b) those birds are transported during the open season or within five days after its termination; and

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Marginal note:Fully feathered wing or head

• 52 (1) A person must not have in their possession or transport a migratory game bird that is not preserved and that was killed or taken under a migratory game bird hunting permit referred to in section 30 unless at least one fully feathered wing or the fully feathered head is attached to the bird to allow its species to be identified.

• Marginal note:Identification of species

  (2) The possessor or transporter of the migratory game birds referred to in subsection (1) must store them in a manner which allows each bird to be counted and its species to be identified.

• 20 (1) No person shall

  • (a) buy, sell, possess or transport live migratory birds or their eggs for avicultural purposes except under an avicultural permit issued by the Minister;

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  • (c) subject to subsection (2), kill migratory birds that are bought, sold, taken, possessed or transported pursuant to an avicultural permit.

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Marginal note:Relocation permit

• 71 (1) A relocation permit allows its holder or their nominees named in the permit to undertake activities for the purpose of relocating the migratory birds, eggs and nests described in the permit, in the manner set out in the permit and subject to the conditions of that permit, including

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  • (b) the transport of those migratory birds, eggs and nests to the other area described in the permit; and

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