267 tal-2012

Minister for Tourism, Culture and the

Prime Minister

Environment

L.N. L.N.

267 of 2012

of 2012

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for

Tourism, Culture and the Environment has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild Citation.

Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Conservation of Wild Birds S.L. 504.71

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

for the definition "captive bred", there shall be

substituted the following new definition

" "captive bred" means a bird which has been

hatched and bred from parental stock in a human

controlled environment and has been marked by a seamless

closed ring or, where the Director is satisfied that this

marking method is not appropriate because of the physical

or behavioural properties of the bird, by means of a

uniquely numbered, unalterable microchip transponder

conforming to ISO Standards 11784: 1996 (E) and 11785

1996 (E);"; and

(b)

for the definition "closed ring", there shall be

substituted the following new definition

" "closed ring" means a ring or band in a

continuous circle, without any break or join, which has not

been tampered with in any way, of a size which cannot be

removed from the bird when its leg is fully grown after

having been applied in the first days of the bird’s life and

which has been commercially manufactured for that

purpose and which has been approved by the Director;".

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