83 tal-2017
Table of Provisions (6)
Statutory Text (6 Articles)
L.N. 83 of 2017
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT
(CAP. 549)
Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a
2017 Spring Hunting Season for Quail) Regulations, 2017
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 54 of the
Environment Protection 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 2017 Spring Hunting Season
for Quail) Regulations, 2017.
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. 549.42
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
hunting period.
regulations, the period for the hunting of Quail in spring 2017,
hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the spring hunting
season", shall be from the 25th March to the 14th April, 2017, 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. 549.57
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 Quail as the total and quotas.
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
five (5) Quail and the spring hunting season’s bag limit to ten (10)
Quail 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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