304 tal-2012 - Regolamenti tal-2012 dwar il-Konservazzjoni tal-Għasafar Selvaġġi (Dikjarazzjoni dwar deroga għall-Istaġun tal-Insib fil-Ħarifa tal-2012 għall-Malvizz u l-Pluviera)

L.N. 304 of 2012

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a derogation for

a 2012 Autumn live-capturing season for Song Thrush

and Golden Plover) Regulations, 2012

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, and in terms of

regulation 10(6)(t) of the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations,

and of regulations 3 and 6 of the Conservation of Wild Birds

(Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-

Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations,

2012, 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 (Declaration on a derogation for a 2012 Autumn live-capturing

season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations, 2012.

Terms and expressions used in these regulations, unless the Interpretation.

context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as given to

them in the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 504.71

referred to as the "the Wild Birds Regulations", and in the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations, 2012.

For the purposes of establishing the period for the live- Establishing of

capturing of wild birds under paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of sub- periods.

regulation (6) of regulation 10 of the Wild Birds Regulations, and for

the purpose of these regulations the period for the live-capturing of

Song Thrush and Golden Plover for the year 2012, hereinafter

referred to as "the Autumn live-capturing season", shall be on the

following dates

(a)

live-capturing of Song Thrush between the 20th

October 2012 and the 31st December 2012, both dates included;

(b)

live-capturing of Golden Plover between the 20th

October 2012 and the 10th January 2013, both dates included.

For the purposes of these regulations, the Autumn live-

capturing season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations, 2012.

(1)

The Autumn live-capturing licence, which shall be

issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of two euro (€2), shall set

the overall seasonal bag limit for the Autumn live-capturing season at

5,000 for Song Thrush and 1,150 for Golden Plover as the total

number of birds which may be captured under the authority of all

issued licences taken together.

(2) The Autumn live-capturing licence shall set the daily bag

limit to three (3) birds and the Autumn live-capturing season’s bag

limit to six (6) birds for each Autumn live-capturing licence or

however many below this number might have been captured before

the season closed.

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