S.I. No. 236/1988 - Nature Reserve (Little Skellig) Recognition Order, 1988.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Nature Reserve (Little Skellig) Recognition Order, 1988.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 10th day of October, 1988.

2. (1) The land specified in paragraph (2) of this Article is hereby recognised as a nature reserve.

(2) The land referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article is the area of land situated in the townland of Little Skellig in the county of Kerry and surrounding unknown island and rocks and shown enclosed on the map annexed hereto within the inner margin of the black line and hatched thereon in black.

GIVEN under my hand, this 21st day of September, 1988.

NOEL TREACY,

Minister of State at the Department of Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order recognises the lands situated in the townland of Little Skellig, County Kerry, as a nature reserve so that it can be managed in such a way as to ensure the conservation of the breeding habitat of certain seabird species.

Little Skellig Nature Reserve

S.I. No. 236 of 1988.

NATURE RESERVE (LITTLE SKELLIG) RECOGNITION ORDER, 1988.

I, NOEL TREACY, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture and Food, the Minister for the Marine, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and the council of the county of Kerry, being satisfied by the person who is the occupier of the land specified in Article 2 of the following Order, that the land so specified includes a habitat described in paragraph (a) of

section 15

(2) of the

Wildlife Act, 1976

(No. 39 of 1976), and that the interest of the said person in or over the said land is such as to enable the person to establish and manage a nature reserve on the said land, and that the person can, in accordance with any conditions which I, Noel Treacy, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, or the Minister for Finance, see fit to impose, use or manage the said land so as to establish and maintain, or maintain as may be appropriate, a nature reserve on the said land hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 16 of the said Act, the Wildlife (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 (

S.I. No. 156 of 1987

), and the Finance (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1988 (

S.I. No. 3 of 1988

), order as follows