The Minister on the advice of the Forestry Commission may by legislative instrument make regulations for the administration of this Act and in particular for the- [As substituted by Forestry Commission Act, 1999 (Act 571), s. 35 ss. 2 f (a)].

(a) establishment of close seasons with the view to facilitate the rearing of young animals;

(b) application of measures for preventing the transmission of contagious diseases from domestic to wild animals;

(c) destruction of the eggs of crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and pythons;

(d) prohibition of the hunting and destruction of the animals mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act and also of any other animals whose protection, whether owing to their rarity or threatened extermination, may be considered necessary;

(e) prohibition of the hunting and destruction of young animals of the species mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act;

(f) prohibition of the hunting and destruction of the species mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act, when accompanied by their young;

(g) prohibition, to a certain extent, of the destruction of any females, when they can be recognised as such, with the exception of those of the species mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Act;

(h) prohibition of the hunting and destruction, except in limited numbers, over a limited area and for a limited period of time, of animals of the species mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act;

(i) prohibition of the hunting of wild animals by any persons except holders of licences issued by the competent Government authority on such terms as shall by the regulations be prescribed;

(j) restriction or prohibition of the use of nets, pits or enclosures, gins, traps or snares or of set guns and missiles containing explosives for hunting animals;

(k) application of measures for effecting the sufficient reduction of the numbers of the animals of the species mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Act;

(l) establishment of reserves within which it shall be unlawful to hunt, capture, or kill any bird or other wild animal except those which shall be specially exempted from protection;

(m) imposition of export duties, on, and the prohibition of the sale or exportation of, any trophy;

(n) prohibition of hunting or killing young elephants and the confiscation of all elephant tusks weighing less than twenty-five pounds;

(o) the protection and preservation of reserves and of the animals therein;

(p) prohibition of the use of dazzling lights, flares, poison or poisoned weapons for hunting animals;

(q) protection of eggs of such birds as may be specified in the regulations made under this section;

(r) the imposition of penalties not exceeding c2million or imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both for breach of any regulation made under this section. [As substituted by Wild Animals Preservation (Amendment) Law, 1983 (PNDCL 55) s.1 and amended by the Forestry Commisssion Act, 1999 (Act 571)s. 35 ss. 2 f (b)].