This section replaces section 13 of the Game Preservation Act, 1930, which relates to the marking of packages containing game in transit within the State or when being exported. It extends its provisions to all protected wild birds and wild animals. It is another link in the chain of preventive provisions in this part of the Bill aimed at unlawful trafficking in protected species.
Subsection (1) lists the various types of containers to which the section applies, namely, those containing protected fauna, dead or alive, or parts thereof and, in the case of wild birds, their eggs.
Subsection (2) requires that such containers, while being transported, shall be so marked as to indicate clearly (a) that the contents thereof comprise protected fauna and (b) the name and address of the sender.
Subsection (3) makes it an offence for a person knowingly to consign or transport a container not properly marked.
Subsection (4): the effect of this section is to provide a "saver" for the transport or consignment of game species lawfully taken in an open season. To require the bag or other container normally used in such circumstances to be specially marked would be unreasonable.