BILL NO. 87
(as introduced)
3rd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
Sunday Hunting Act
Andrew Younger
Dartmouth East
First Reading: November 9, 2011
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Notes
Clause 1 provides a short title to this Act.
Clause 2 provides that where a Saturday and the following Monday are prescribed as part of the open season for hunting big game, the Sunday between is deemed to be part of the open season.
Clause 3 allows the holder of a big-game hunting licence to hunt on a Sunday during the open season.
Clause 4 allows the holder of a big-game hunting licence to transport or possess a firearm or bow in a wildlife habitat on a Sunday during the open season.
An Act to Amend Chapter 504
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Wildlife Act
1 This Act may be cited as the Sunday Hunting Act.
2 Section 39 of Chapter 504 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Wildlife Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following subsection:
(a) takes, hunts or kills big game;
(b) pursues with intent to take, hunt or kill, big game; or
(c) carries any firearm or bow in any place frequented by big game.
(a) holds a valid licence to hunt big game; and
(b) transports or possesses a firearm or a bow in a wildlife habitat that is frequented by big game.
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