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Nature Conservation Ordinance 4 of 1975

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Nature Conservation Ordinance 4 of 1975.pdf Import/Export Law

Measures in the Legal Document

1. Catching, capturing and killing of game and wild animals
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods
2. Donation of game and game meat
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods
3. Sale, donation, export and removal of protected plants
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods

No person other than the lawful holder of a permit granted by the Minister shall sell, donate or export or remove from Namibia, any protected plant: Provided that the owner of a nursery licensed under section 75 may without such permit sell or donate and export and remove from Namibia any protected plant cultivated on the premises of such nursery.

4. Hunting for the sake of trophies and possession and export of trophies
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods

Export of trophies are subject to a valid trophy hunting permit.

 

5. Transport of game and game meat
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods
6. Regulations
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods

The Minister may make regulations in relation to the keeping of registers relating to the obtaining, processing, sale or export of the skins of game or wild animals; the registers to be kept by any person who imports or sells or offers for sale or is, for the purpose of selling it, in possession of coyote getters and cartridges therefor; and the regulation of the import, cultivation and control of any plant, whether it is an indigenous plant or not.

7. General powers of Minister
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods

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8. Import and export of game and wild animals and their skins
Type Class Valid From Valid To
General Goods