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Unlawful method of hunting.— (1) Subject to the provisions of section 8, no person shall hunt any game from or by means of a wheeled or a mechanically propelled vehicle on water or land or by air-craft. (2) Subject to the provisions of section 8, no person shall use a motor car, motor launch or aircraft for the purpose of killing, driving or stampeding game. (3) No person shall hunt any game with nets, snares, pit falls, poison or poison weapons, except in defence of human life or property and except in so far as it relates to capture of animals and birds under a licence of the kind specified in clause (e) of sub-section (2) of section 9. (4) No person shall, for the purpose of hunting, set fire to any vegetation. (5) No person shall use any artificial light for the purpose of hunting except in the case of carnivora, over a kill. (6) No person shall hunt any game during the hours of night, i. e. one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise except in the case of carnivora by sitting on a kill. (7) No person shall hunt any game on a salt-lick or water hole or other drinking places or on paths and approaches to the same except sandgrouse and water birds. (8) No person shall hunt any game on any land of private ownership, without the consent of the owner or his agent or the lawful occupier of such land. (9) No person shall, notwithstanding that he holds a game licence for the purpose, hunt any game animal during the close time.