Moderate agenda for law-makers at L.A. sitting
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The proposed amendment will allow companies to be reinstated within two years from the striking off, or within a longer period, within the discretion of the Governor in Council, but not exceeding ten years.
At the same session the report of the select Committee set up last year to look into cost, payments and other matters to news media will be delivered by committee chairman the Hon. Truman Bodden.
Also on the agenda is a bill to make the provisions of the Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora of 1973 part of the laws of the Cayman Islands.
The bill is to repeal the Cayman Turtle Protection Law as it forbids the import and export of wild sea turtles and turtle products. Turtles reared at the Turtle Farm from eggs hatched in the Islands are exempt.
Also exempt are wild green sea turtles if taken "in waters seaward of mean low tide for personal consumption by residents of the Islands if such taking is customary, traditional and necessary for the sustenance of such resident and their immediate families. Sea turtles so taken may not be transferred to nonresidents or sold."
The bill is to forbid the taking and possession of turtle eggs, except for franchise holders such as the turtle farm. The bill is to forbid the taking and possession of turtle eggs, except for franchise holders such as the Turtle Farm.
The bill is to forbid the import and export of creatures and plants listed on 22 pages beginning with the from page 1
Parma Wallaby and ending with the Zygophyllaceous (bean) Guaiacum sanctum.
It includes the Bahamas Parrot, Amazona leucocephala which is still fairly plentiful in the Cayman Islands but more or less extinct elsewhere. It apparently does not include the Cayman iguana.
Listed among the plants are orchids and aloe, for example. Another schedule is to restrict the import and export of animal products, such as certain furs and hides, ivory, animal teeth and whalebone (unless cut to shape), whalemeat and extracts, and others.
The bill is to empower Executive Council to grant licences for the import and export of the listed creatures and plants and their products.
Contravention of the law is to be punished by a fine of up to $800 and-or imprisonment for up to two years.
