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Restriction on use of certain firearms etc.
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33.—(1) It shall be an offence for a person to kill or injure—
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(a) with a repeating or automatic shotgun (other than a repeating or automatic shotgun which is adapted or modified so as to render it incapable of carrying more than three shotgun cartridges), with an airgun, air-rifle, gas-rifle, pistol or revolver, or with any firearm fitted with a silencer device, any wild bird,
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(b) with a rifle, any protected wild bird.
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(2) It shall be an offence for a person to kill or injure any wild bird or wild mammal with a spring gun, or with tracer shot or with a floating container containing an explosive substance.
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(3) It shall be an offence for a person to kill or injure with a shotgun a protected wild animal other than a hare.
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(4) Subject to the foregoing subsections of this section, the Minister may make regulations specifying the type and calibre of firearms and ammunition which may be used to hunt wild birds and wild mammals and providing that firearms and ammunition of any other type and calibre shall not be used to hunt such birds or mammals.
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(5) In this section “rifle” includes both a gas-rifle and an air-rifle.
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