Regulations, 2018

L.N. 91 of 2018

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a

2018 Spring Hunting Season for Quail)

Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE 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 the Environment, Sustainable

Development 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 2018 Spring Hunting Season

for Quail) Regulations, 2018.

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

context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as given to S.L. 549.42

them in the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, hereinafter

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 2018,

hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the spring hunting

season", shall be from the 1st April to the 21st April, 2018, 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 bag Special licence

limit for the spring hunting season at 5,000 Quail as the total number and quotas.

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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