Turtle Dove and Quail) Regulations, 2022

L.N. 116 of 2022

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a

2022 Spring Hunting Season for

Turtle Dove and Quail) Regulations, 2022

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

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for the Environment,

Energy and Enterprise, 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 2022 Spring Hunting Season

for Turtle Dove and Quail) Regulations, 2022.

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

context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as assigned to

them in the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 549.42.

referred to as "the Wild Birds Regulations".

For the purposes of the fourth proviso to regulation 10(6) of Establishment

the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of these regulations, of

hunting season.

the period for the hunting of Quail in Spring 2022, shall be from the

10th April to the 30th April, 2022, both dates included, from two (2)

hours before sunrise until noon. The period for the hunting of Turtle

Dove in Spring 2022, shall be from the 17th April to the 30th April,

2022, 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.

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

9(1)(c) of the Birds Directive were discussed on the 16 March 2022.

Spring Hunting Season for Turtle Dove and Quail Regulations.

(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, and at one thousand and five hundred (1,500) Turtle

Dove, 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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