The hunting card applies to the visiting hunter too
Foreign travellers hunting in Iceland must obtain the hunting card and otherwise meet the same requirements as Icelandic hunters.
Icelandic hunting rights read in two layers. All Icelandic citizens, and foreign citizens with legal domicile in Iceland, may hunt in the commons, on the afréttir outside farm properties where no one can prove ownership, and in Iceland's economic zone beyond the waters attached to properties — having obtained the authorisation the act and its regulations provide for. On private land, by contrast, only landowners have the right to hunt and to dispose of hunting, unless the law provides otherwise. The act locks that link: the right to hunt may not be permanently separated from the property, in whole or in part. It may be detached for a fixed period, of no more than ten years at a time. For a hunter coming from abroad the rule is explicit: foreign travellers who hunt here must obtain the hunting card (veiðikort) under article 11 and otherwise meet the requirements set for hunters in the country.