The Baselland Jagdpass: five conditions and over a year of training
Only a valid pass permits hunting; the theoretical and practical training normally takes more than a year.
Paragraph 23 is terse: only the holder of a valid hunting pass may hunt. Paragraph 24 makes the pass the personal document of the right to hunt in the canton and ties it to five conditions: having legal capacity; having passed a Swiss hunting exam or holding a recognised foreign one; having provided proof of marksmanship; being liability-insured within federal law; and being subject to no ground of exclusion arising from an offence incompatible with hunting. Special passes may be issued to hunters in training, and the government may decide to recognise passes from other cantons. The canton spells out what the exam represents: anyone who wants to hunt in Basel-Landschaft must hold a passed, cantonally recognised hunting exam, which requires extensive training in theory and practice, normally taking more than a year. The pass is issued against a fee, plus a levy to the canton intended in particular to compensate game damage.