MT
100 tal-2019
Table of Provisions (7)
Statutory Text (7 Articles)
L.N. 100 of 2019
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT
(CAP. 549)
Protection of Wild Rabbit (Amendment) Regulations, 2019
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55 of the
Environment Protection Act, the Minister for the Environment,
Sustainable Development and Climate Change in conjunction with the
Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights
and after consultation with the Environment and Resources Authority,
has made the following regulations:-
The title of these regulations is the Protection of Wild Citation.
Rabbit (Amendment) Regulations, 2019, and they shall be read and
construed as one with the Protection of Wild Rabbit Regulations, S.L. 549.90.
hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".
In the proviso to the definition "to train", in regulation 2 of Amends
the principal regulations, the words "any dog shall be on a leash at all regulation
the principal
times and" shall be deleted.
regulations.
Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends
regulation 4 of
as follows
the principal
regulations.
(a) paragraph (d) thereof, shall be substituted by the
following
"(d) unless he is carrying with him his legally valid
identification document or any other recognized means of
identification and the proper licence for the activity issued
to him under these regulations or any other law
Provided that where any such person is not
carrying such documents with him, he shall be freed of any
liability arising from such omission if within two (2) days
he produces to the police such document at the place
indicated to him by them.";
(b) paragraph (e) thereof, including its provisos, shall be
deleted; and
(c)
paragraph (f) thereof, shall be deleted.
Sub-regulation (6) of regulation 5 of the principal
regulations, shall be amended as follows
(a) in paragraph (d) thereof, the words "Schedule IV;"
shall be substituted by the words "Schedule IV."; and
(b)
paragraph (e) thereof, shall be deleted.
Sub-regulation (4) of regulation 7 of the principal
regulations, shall be substituted by the following: "(4) Without
prejudice to the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, no person
shall at any time keep or carry a firearm which is loaded, or with
cartridges in its magazine, or out of its case, unless at the place where
the shooting of wild rabbit is allowed.".
Schedule II of the principal regulations, shall be substituted
by the following new schedule
"SCHEDULE II
Regulation 12
Administrative Fines
Regulation
Offence
Penalty
Failure to produce the relevant licence/
€250
identity documentation to the Police
within two (2) days.
Provided that this fine shall not apply in
the absence of a valid general licence to
hunt or to take wild rabbit, in which case
the offender shall be charged before the
Court of Magistrates.
5(11)
Failure to declare every wild rabbit
€50 per
hunted or taken.
undeclared
wild rabbit
Use of unmuzzled ferrets during train-
€100
ing or capturing of wild rabbit.
Possession of any firearm which has a
€250
magazine capable of holding more than
two (2) rounds of ammunition at any
time.
".
€0.18