Season for Turtle Dove and Quail (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

L.N. 139 of 2020

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening a Spring Hunting

Season for Turtle Dove and Quail (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55 of

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for the Environment,

Climate Change and Planning, in conjunction with the Minister for

Gozo and after consultation with the Environment and Resources

Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is Framework for Allowing a

Derogation Opening a Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and

Quail (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening a Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and Quail

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Terms and expressions used in these regulations, unless the

context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as given in

the principal regulations.

In the second proviso to regulation 3 of the principal

regulations, immediately after the words "when establishing the

duration of any Spring Hunting Season, the Minister shall also take

into consideration the size of the bag limit to be allowed for that

particular spring hunting derogation", there shall be added the words

", and may also decide on whether he shall establish the daily bag limit

for each licence and the seasonal bag limit for each licence to be

allowed for that particular Spring hunting season".

In paragraph (b) of regulation 5 of the principal regulations,

immediately after the words "set the daily bag limit of birds and the

total spring hunting season bag limit per licence" there shall be added

the words: ", provided only if such bag limits have been established by

the Minister in accordance with regulation 3".

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