65 tal-2019

L.N. 65 of 2019

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

for the Control of Birds in the Interest of Air-safety)

(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 Conservation of Wild Citation.

Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation for the Control of Birds

in the Interest of Air-safety) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019, and

these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation for S.L. 549.85.

the Control of Birds in the Interest of Air-safety) Regulations

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

In the first proviso to regulation 3 of the principal Amends

regulations, the words ''bird flocks'' shall be substituted by the word regulation

the principal

''birds''.

regulations.

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 5 of the principal Amends

regulation 5 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) in paragraph (d) thereof, the words ''the Director

deems that the number of birds'' shall be substituted by the words

''the Malta International Airport, in consultation with the Wild

Birds Regulation Unit, deems that the birds'';

(b) in paragraph (e) thereof, immediately after the words

"prior to resorting to the", there shall be added the words

"relocation or";

(c) immediately after paragraph (e) thereof, there shall be

added the following new proviso

''Provided that the sites from where each bird

relocated from the perimeter of the airport will be released

shall be approved in advance by the Wild Birds Regulation

Unit and any other relevant authority as applicable;'';

(d) in paragraph (f) thereof, immediately after the word

''prohibited'' there shall be added the '', unless there is sufficient

justification from an air safety point of view to depart from such

prohibition, in which case the licence shall list such methods and

specify that they shall only be used to avoid an air safety hazard

and for no other purpose;'';

(e) paragraph (g) thereof, shall be substituted by the

following new paragraph

''(g) require that for the purpose of culling, the

person in possession of an Air Safety Bird Control licence

holds a valid police permit to carry a firearm for the

purpose of bird hunting on land and a valid general licence

to hunt birds on land issued under the terms of the

Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations;'';

(f) In paragraphs (h), (j), (k) and (l) thereof, the words

''Director'' shall be substituted by the words ''Wild Birds

Regulation Unit'' throughout; and

(g) In sub-regulation (2) thereof, the word ''Director''

shall be substituted by the words ''Wild Birds Regulation Unit''.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) In sub-regulation (2) thereof, immediately after the

words ''seize from the possession of that person'', there shall be

added the words ''any equipment used during the control of

birds,'' ; and

(b) in sub-regulation (3) thereof, the word ''Director''

shall be substituted by the words ''Wild Birds Regulation Unit''.

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