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Prohibition against exportation of certain game birds.
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27.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person, save with the permission in writing of the superintendent of the Gárda Síochána for the district in which such person resides and in accordance with the terms of such permission, to export any partridge, pheasant or grouse during the period of two years from and after the commencement of this Act or during any extension of that period made by the Minister under this section.
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(2) The Minister may if he so thinks fit at any time and from time to time by order extend by such time as he thinks proper the said period of two years mentioned in the foregoing sub-section and may at any time by order vary, amend or revoke any such order.
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(3) Every order made by the Minister under this section extending the said period of two years shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after the order is laid before it annulling such order such order shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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(4) Every permission given under this section for the exporting of any partridge, pheasant, or grouse shall be in writing in the prescribed form and shall be given in duplicate and one such duplicate shall be retained by the exporter and the other such duplicate shall be affixed by the exporter to the box, case, or wrapping in which the partridge, pheasant or grouse the subject of such permission is exported.
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(5) Any officer of Customs and Excise may detain and seize any partridge, grouse or pheasant being or attempted to be exported in contravention of this section and for that purpose may open any packet containing or suspected by him of containing any such partridge, grouse or pheasant, and the provisions of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, in relation to the condemnation and disposal of goods seized under that Act shall apply to all partridges, grouse and pheasants seized under this Act in like manner as if they had been seized under that Act.
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(6) This section shall have effect as though it were included in the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and that Act and any Act amending or extending that Act shall apply accordingly, and if any articles the export of which is prohibited by this section are exported in contravention of this section or are brought to any quay or other place for the purpose of being so exported or are waterborne to be so exported, the exporter or his agent shall be liable to the same penalty as that to which a person is liable under section 186 of that Act for illegally importing prohibited goods.
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(7) Any officer of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs may detain and examine and if necessary open for that purpose any postal packet addressed to a place outside Saorstát Eireann and containing or suspected by him of containing any partridge, grouse or pheasant being or attempted to be exported in contravention of this section, and if a postal packet so detained contains any such partridge, grouse or pheasant, the officers of the said Minister shall dispose of such packet and its contents in accordance with the instructions of the Minister for Justice or a superintendent of the Gárda Síochána.
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