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L.N. 89 of 2016

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a

2016 Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and Quail)

Regulations, 2016

BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, and in terms of the

provisions of the fourth proviso of regulation 10(6) of the

Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, 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 2016 Spring Hunting Season

for Turtle Dove and Quail) Regulations, 2016.

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".

For the purposes of the fourth proviso to regulation 10(6) Establishment

of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of these of

period.

regulations, the period for the hunting of Turtle Dove and Quail for

the year 2016, hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the

spring hunting season", shall be from the 17th April to the 30th April,

2016, both dates included

Provided that the provisions of these regulations shall

cease to have effect and no hunting activity shall be permitted in the

event that the Minister orders, by notice in the Gazette or any other

notice, that the spring hunting season is to terminate immediately or

at a date as specified by the Minister.

For the purposes of these regulations, the spring hunting Hunting

season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the framework according

framework.

laid down by the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for S.L. 504.94

Allowing a Derogation Opening a Spring Hunting Season for Turtle

Dove and Quail) Regulations.

(1)

The Spring Hunting Licence shall set the overall Special licence

bag limit for the spring hunting season at 5,000 for Turtle Dove and and quotas.

5,000 for Quail as the total number of birds which may be hunted

under the authority of all issued licences taken together.

(2) The Spring Hunting Licence shall set the daily bag limit to

two (2) birds and the spring hunting season’s bag limit to four (4)

birds per Spring Hunting Licence or however many below this

number might have been hunted before the season closed.

(3) The Spring Hunting Licence shall cease to have effect in

the event that the Minister orders, by notice in the Gazette or any

other notice, that the spring hunting season is to terminate

immediately or at a date as specified by the Minister.

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