83 tal-2011
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 83 of 2011
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT
(CAP. 504)
Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation
Opening a Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and Quail)
(Amendment) Regulations, 2011
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and 62 of
the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Prime Minister
has made the following regulations
The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild Citation.
Birds (Framework for Applying a Derogation Opening a Spring
Hunting Season for Turtledove and Quail) (Amendment) Regulations,
2011 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the
Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Applying a Derogation S.L. 504.94
Opening a Spring Hunting Season for Turtledove and Quail)
Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".
In regulation 3 of the principal regulations for the words Amends
"by means of a notice in the Gazette." there shall be substituted the regulation
the principal
words "by means of a notice in the Gazette:" and immediately regulations.
thereafter there shall be added the following new proviso
"Provided that the Minister shall not open the spring
hunting season when the hunting for the two species concerned
during the previous autumn hunting season may be considered
as having constituted a satisfactory solution in terms of Article
9(1) of Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of
wild birds, and taking into consideration the thresholds
established in Annex I.".
Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends
regulation 4 of
as follows
the principal
regulations.
(a)
subregulation (2) thereof shall be substituted by the
following
"(2) The Spring Hunting Licences which may be
issued under these regulations shall be against payment of
a fee not exceeding fifty euro (€50) for each licence.";
(b)
subregulation (3) thereof shall be deleted; and
(c)
subregulation (4) thereof shall be renumbered as
subregulation (3).
Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be amended
as follows
(a)
in paragraph (a) thereof for the words "contained in
Annex 1 to these regulations;", there shall be substituted the
words "contained in Annex I to these regulations and taking into
consideration the conservation status of the two species
concerned and the maintenance of the population of the species
at a satisfactory level;"; and
(b) for paragraph (h) thereof there shall be substituted
the following new paragraph
"(h) provide that hunting can only take place on
Monday to Friday from two hours before sunrise to three
o’clock in the afternoon and on Saturdays from two hours
before sunrise to noon;".
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