Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

L.N. 299 of 2024

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2024

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

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister responsible for the

environment in conjunction with the Minister for Gozo and Planning,

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 (Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Conservation of Wild Birds L.S. 549.42.

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

Regulation 21 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 21 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) in the Maltese version only, in sub-regulation (3)

thereof, immediately after the words "Kull persuna li żżomm

għasfur" there shall be added the words "jew għasfur"; and

(b) in sub-regulation (10) thereof, immediately after the

second proviso thereof, there shall be added the following new

provisos

"Provided further that without prejudice to the

provisions of this sub-regulation, the transfer of any bird or

Non-European territory bird which has been declared with

the Environment and Resources Authority or its

predecessor by the 31st May 2003, which has been

taxonomically identified and marked with an identification

device by the Wild Birds Regulation Unit or its

predecessor, may be carried out following the submission

of a transfer notification form issued for this purpose by the

Wild Birds Regulation Unit

Provided further that following submission of

the transfer notification form of the specimen that has been

taxonomically identified and marked with an identification

device by the Wild Birds Regulation Unit or its

predecessor, the Wild Birds Regulation Unit, after having

made all the necessary verifications, shall issue a certificate

B

in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (6)

and (7):".

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