331 tal-2015 - Regolamenti tal-2015 dwar il-Konservazzjoni tal-Għasafar Selvaġġi (Dikjarazzjoni dwar Deroga għall-Istaġun tal-Insib fil-Ħarifa tal-2015 għall-Malvizz u l-Pluviera)

L.N. 331 of 2015

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a derogation for a

2015 Autumn live-capturing season for Song Thrush and Golden

Plover) Regulations, 2015

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, and in terms of the

provisions of regulation 10(6) of the Conservation of Wild Birds

Regulations, and of regulations 4 and 7 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 Sustainable Development, the

Environment and Climate Change has made the following

regulations:-

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

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2015 Autumn live-capturing

season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations, 2015.

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 Wild Birds Regulations", and in the Conservation S.L. 504.113

of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an

Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover)

Regulations.

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

capturing of wild birds under regulation 10(6)(ii) and (iii) of the Wild of season.

Birds Regulations, and for the purpose of these regulations the period

for the live-capturing of Song Thrush and Golden Plover for the year

2015, 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 2015 and the 31st December 2015, both dates included;

(b)

live-capturing of Golden Plover between the 20th

October 2015 and the 31st December 2015, 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.

(1)

The Autumn live-Capturing licence, which shall be

issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of fifty-five euro (€55),

shall set the overall seasonal bag limit for the Autumn live-capturing

season at 5,000 for Song Thrush and 700 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 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 is closed.

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