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S.I. No. 550/2005 - Wildlife (Wild Mammals) (Open Seasons) Order, 2005
Table of Provisions (6)
Statutory Text (6 Articles)
1. This Order may be cited as the Wildlife (Wild Mammals) (Open Seasons Order, 2005.
2. In this Order a reference to a column is to a column of the Schedule to this Order.
3. The species of protected wild mammals specified in column (1) may be hunted during the periods specified in relation to the species concerned in column (2), in the manner so specified in column (3), in the places in the State so specified in column (4).
4. For the purposes of this order Antlerless Deer will be construed as including any male deer without antlers, of less than one year, i.e. a calf
5. The Wildlife (Wild Mammals) (Open Seasons) Order, 1998 (
S.I. No. 331 of 1998
), is hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE
Species of Wild Mammal
Hunting Period
Manner of Hunting
Places in the State
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Male Fallow Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of September in each year and ending on the 31
st
day of December of that same year.
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State.
Female and Antlerless Fallow Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of November in each year and ending on the last day of February in the year immediately following that year.
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State.
Male Sika Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of September in each year and ending on the 31
st
day of December of that same year
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State.
Female and Antlerless Sika Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of November in each year and ending on the last day of February in the year immediately following that year
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State.
Male Red Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of September in each year and ending on the 31
st
day of December of that same year
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State exclusive of the county of Kerry.
Female and Antlerless Red Deer
The period beginning on the 1
st
day of November in each year and ending on the last day of February in the year immediately following that year
Shooting with firearms
Throughout the State.
Hares
The period beginning on the 26
th
day of September in each year and ending on the 28
th
day of February in the year immediately following that year.
Shooting with firearms; coursing at regulated coursing matches; hunting with packs of beagles and harriers
Throughout the state exclusive of the townlands of North East Slob, North West Slob, Big Island, Beggerin Island and The Raven, in the county of Wexford.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, this 1st day of September 2005
Dick Roche,
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The effect of this Order is to set hunting seasons for certain species of wild mammals and to revoke the Wildlife (Wild Mammals) (Open Seasons) Order 1998 (S.I 331 of 1998).
STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
S.I. NO. 550 OF 2005
WILDLIFE (WILD MAMMALS) (OPEN SEASONS) ORDER, 2005.
WILDLIFE (WILD MAMMALS) (OPEN SEASONS) ORDER, 2005.
The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 8(2) of the
Wildlife Act, 1976
(No. 39 of 1976), and the Heritage (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 2002 (
S.I. No. 356 of 2002
) hereby orders as follows