2021 Spring Hunting Season for Quail) Regulations, 2021

L.N. 163 of 2021

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a

2021 Spring Hunting Season for Quail) Regulations, 2021

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, and after taking into account the recommendations of the

Malta Ornis Committee * , has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild Citation.

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2021 Spring Hunting Season

for Quail) Regulations, 2021.

Words and expressions used in these regulations, unless Interpretation.

the context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as

assigned to them in the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, S.L. 549. 42.

hereinafter referred to as the "Wild Birds Regulations".

For the purposes of the fourth proviso to sub-regulation (6) Establishment

of regulation 10 of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of of

hunting season.

these regulations, the period for the hunting of Quail in spring 2021,

hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the Spring hunting

season", shall be from the 10th April to the 30th April, 2021, both

dates included, from two (2) hours before sunrise until noon

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 shall 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 Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening a S.L. 549. 57.

Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and Quail Regulations.

* The recommendations of the Malta Ornis Committee on this derogation under

Article 9(1)(a) of the Birds Directive are available at: https://mgoz.gov.mt/en/

Pages/WBRU/Ornis-Commit-tee.aspx (17 March 2021).

(1) The Spring Hunting Licence shall set the overall bag

limit for the Spring hunting season at two thousand and four hundred

(2,400) Quail as the total number of birds which may be hunted under

the authority of all issued licences taken together.

(2) 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 shall terminate immediately or

at a date as specified by the Minister.

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