Chapter III Chapter III

Hunting of animals and birds

No person shall hunt any wild animal or wild bird except under a licence granted under the provisions of this Act and in accordance with the conditions specified in such licence:

Registration of certain persons in possession of arms Any person who holds a licence under any Law for the time being in force or rules in force for the possession of arms for sport or protection or who is exempted from the provisions of such Law or rules and possesses any arms, shall register his name and address with the Wild Life Preservation Officer or any other Officer authorised by the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu in this behalf.

Procedure for licence

1. (1) Any person desiring to obtain a Game licence shall apply to the Wild Life Preservation Officer or any other Officer authorised by the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu in this behalf in the prescribed form. Such application shall be accompanied by such fee for the licence as may be prescribed.
2. (2) The application may be made for any or all of the following kinds of game licences, namely:, (a) Small Game Licence,
   • (b) Big Game Licence,
   • (c) Special Big Game Licence,
   • (d) Pet Animals (Possession) Licence,
   • (e) Pet and other Animals (Trapping) Licence.
3. (3) On receipt of an application and after making such inquiry as he may deem necessary the Wild Life Preservation Officer or the authorised Officer may, subject to any general or special orders of the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu grant or refuse to grant the game licence without assigning any reason. When a game licence is refused the fee paid therefor shall be refunded to the applicant.
4. (4) Every game licence granted under this section shall ordinarily be valid for such period as may be prescribed.
5. (5) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a licence may, within 15 days, appeal to the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu whose decision shall be final.

1. (1) The holder of every game licence of the kind specified in clause (b), (c) or (e) of sub-section (2) of section 9, shall keep a record containing such particulars as may be prescribed of all game killed or captured by him during the currency of his licence.
2. (2) When any game is killed or captured by the holder of such licence, he shall, not later than 15 days of the killing or capture of the game or before leaving the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu, whichever is earlier, intimate in writing to the Wild Life Preservation Officer or to any other Officer authorised by him in this behalf, the prescribed particulars of the animal or bird killed or captured by him.
3. (3) Not later than 15 days after the expiry of his licence, the holder shall surrender his licence to the Wild Life Preservation Officer or the authorised Officer and shall sign a declaration in the prescribed form certifying the accuracy of the record of the game killed or captured by him.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it shall be lawful for the Wild Life Preservation Officer, upon such conditions as he may deem fit to impose, to grant a licence to any person with or without payment of fee, which shall entitle the holder to hunt animals and birds, specified thereon for any of the following purposes, namely:, (i) scientific research;

1. (ii) collection of specimens for Zoological gardens, museums and similar institutions; and
2. (iii) killing of such animals and birds as are a source of serious menace to human life or property.

1. (1) The Wild Life Preservation Officer or any other Officer authorised by him in this behalf may, subject to any general or special orders of the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu, without giving any previous notice and without assigning any reasons, suspend or cancel any licence granted under this Chapter.
2. (2) Any person aggrieved by the suspension or cancellation of a licence under sub-section (1) may, within 15 days, appeal to the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu whose decision shall be final.

1. (1) Except when authorised under a specified condition to that effect in a licence, no person shall hunt the young of any game or any female game accompanied by its young or any deer with horns in velvet.
2. (2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to the hunting of a vermin.

The Government of Goa, Daman and Diu may, by notification in Official Gazette, declare the whole year or any part thereof to be a close time throughout the whole or any part of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu for any kind of wild animal or bird or for female or immature wild animal or bird of such kind.

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 8, no person shall hunt any game from or by means of a wheeled or a mechanically propelled vehicle on water or land or by air-craft.
2. (2) Subject to the provisions of section 8, no person shall use a motor car, motor launch or aircraft for the purpose of killing, driving or stampeding game.
3. (3) No person shall hunt any game with nets, snares, pit falls, poison or poison weapons, except in defence of human life or property and except in so far as it relates to capture of animals and birds under a licence of the kind specified in clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 9.
4. (4) No person shall, for the purpose of hunting, set fire to any vegetation.
5. (5) No person shall use any artificial light for the purpose of hunting except in the case of carnivora, over a kill.
6. (6) No person shall hunt any game during the hours of night, i. e. one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise except in the case of carnivora by sitting on a kill.
7. (7) No person shall hunt any game on a salt-lick or water hole or other drinking places or on paths and approaches to the same except sandgrouse and water birds.
8. (8) No person shall hunt any game on any land of private ownership, without the consent of the owner or his agent or the lawful occupier of such land.
9. (9) No person shall, notwithstanding that he holds a game licence for the purpose, hunt any game animal during the close time.

The Government of Goa, Daman and Diu may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any wild animal or wild bird, other than those specified in Schedule I to be vermin in any specified area and it shall not be necessary to hold a licence to hunt any such animal or bird in such area.

The provisions of sections 27 and 28 shall apply in relation to game as they apply in relation to a trophy.