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Wildlife Conservation (Possession and Ownership of Elephant Tusks or Ivory) Regulations (Chapter 38:01).

Country
Type of law
Regulation
Date of original text
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Abstract
These Regulations provide rules for the collecting, marking and registration of elephant tusks. A person who recovers an elephant tusk or any part thereof from any area whether obtained from activities such as hunting, culling, confiscation, problem animal control, finding of elephants that have died naturally or by any other means, shall mark it immediately with a temporary ivory registration label. The tusks shall be delivered to the nearest district office of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks within seven days of the discovery. Ivory shall be transferred on a monthly basis from district offices to the national ivory store. The Director of the Department may return tusks to the rightful owner.
Notes
Consolidated version of S.I. No. 35 of 2001 as at 31 December 2008 and amended by S.I. No. 29 of 2005.
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No