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Four course periods and a special examination before the first licence

The first licence requires an approved firearm, four course periods and a pass in a special examination.

Article 31 sets the general prohibition: no person, with or without one or more dogs, may shoot, kill, hold, capture or in any way pursue game, or carry a hunting weapon during the open season, unless they hold a valid hunting licence. The first licence is granted by the minister to someone who already holds an authorisation to possess a non-shouldered hunting bow or a shouldered smooth-bore hunting weapon — single-barrelled holding only one cartridge in the chamber, or double-barrelled holding only one per chamber — provided they have attended four periods of training courses and passed a special examination. The application is filed before the courses and examination begin, with the minister, on Form A of Annex VII, with a recent passport photograph and payment of the fee set in Annex VIII. The act adds a rule about dogs: training a dog is forbidden in the areas the act designates, and hunting accompanied by a dog is permitted only if the dog's owner holds a hunting licence.

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Cyprus: the Cyprus mouflon counts as protected wild fauna

The 2003 act defines wild fauna as game, wild birds, the fox and the agrino.

Cyprus's act 152(I)/2003 on the protection and management of wild birds and game opens with its definitions. Wild fauna means game, wild birds, the fox and the agrino — the species Ovis orientalis ophion, the Cyprus mouflon. A wild bird is any bird that lives naturally in a wild state, including game birds. The act defines the means just as precisely. A hunting weapon is a long, shouldered firearm with a smooth bore, either single-barrelled holding only one cartridge in the chamber, or double-barrelled holding only one cartridge in each chamber, or an air weapon. The latter is defined as a weapon whose barrel has a smooth or rifled internal surface, operates on compressed air and fires a projectile of metal, plastic or other material. The Council of Ministers may, by order published in the Official Gazette, prohibit — in addition to any close season — the shooting, killing, pursuit, capture, sale or offering for sale of any species of wild fauna during a period fixed in the order; breaching such an order is an offence.

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