Chapter V Chapter V

Trophies and pet animals and birds

No person shall carry on a business of a trophy dealer or dealer in pets, except under and in accordance with the trophy dealer's licence or pets dealer's licence granted under the provisions of this Chapter.

A trophy dealer's or pet and other animal dealer’s licence may be issued by the Wild Life Preservation Officer, or by any other Officer authorised by the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu in this behalf, on application and payment of such fees as may be prescribed, and shall entitle the holder to carry on the business of a trophy dealer or dealer in pets upon the premises and conditions specified in the licence.

Records and returns to be made by trophy and pets dealers A trophy dealer or dealer in pets shall keep such records and submit such returns of his dealings to the Wild Life Preservation Officer as may be prescribed.

The Wild Life Preservation Officer may for the purposes of section 29 issue a certificate of ownership to any person who in his opinion is in lawful possession of a trophy.

No person shall export or transfer by gift, sale or otherwise, to any person any trophy unless he is in possession of a certificate of ownership therefor, and such certificate shall be delivered or sent by post to the transferee at the time of export or transfer.

Government trophies Any game found dead or killed without a licence in defence of life or property or by mistake or any game or trophy in respect of which a breach of the provisions of this Act has been committed, shall be a Government trophy and the property of the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu.

Any person who, by any means, obtains possession of a Government trophy shall, within 48 hours make a report thereof to the nearest Game, Police or Forest Officer and shall, if so required, hand over the trophy to him.

1. (1) No person shall, without permission of any of the officers referred to in section 30, keep in his possession any Government trophy or without the permission of the Wild Life Preservation Officer or any other officer authorised by the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu in this behalf, transfer by gift, sale or otherwise, any Government trophy to any person.
2. (2) In any prosecution for contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), it shall, until the contrary is proved and the burden of proving which shall lie on the accused, be presumed that the person in whose possession the Government trophy was found was in unlawful possession thereof.

Every person who kills an elephant or a bison shall produce its ivory or horn before the Wild Life Preservation Officer or any other officer authorised by the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu in this behalf, within one month of the killing thereof, or within such further time as may be allowed by him in any special case, together with the game licence under which it was killed.

The Officer to whom the ivory or horn is produced under the provisions of section 35, if satisfied, after such inquiry as he may consider necessary, that the ivory or horn has been lawfully obtained, shall cause it to be weighed, marked and registered in the prescribed manner and shall return it to the person producing it together with a certificate of ownership in the prescribed form.

No person shall, in any manner transfer any such ivory or horn without the certificate of ownership obtained from the Wild Life Preservation Officer or the authorised Officer, as the case may be.