Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930

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Prohibition of keeping birds in confined cages.

6.—(1) Any person who shall keep or confine a bird in any cage or other receptacle which shall not measure sufficient in height, length, and breadth to permit such bird freely to stretch its wings and exercise itself shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

(2) This section shall not apply to poultry within the meaning of the Poultry Act, 1911, or to any bird kept or contained in a cage or other receptacle—

(a) while being conveyed by land or water, or

(b) while being shown for the purpose of public exhibition or competition, if the time during which it is so kept or confined for the purpose of being so shown does not in the whole exceed seventy-two hours.