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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION OF THE AUTUMN HUNTING SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE) REGULATIONS
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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION
ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2016 SPRING HUNTING
SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.102
CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS
(DECLARATION OF THE AUTUMN HUNTING
SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE) REGULATIONS
16th March, 2016
LEGAL NOTICE 89 of 2016.
The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild
Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2016 Spring Hunting
Season for Turtle Dove and Quail) Regulations.
Terms and expressions used in these regulations, unless the
context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as given to
them in the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, hereinafter
referred to as the "the Wild Birds Regulations".
For the purposes of the fourth proviso to regulation 10(6)
of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of these
regulations, the period for the hunting of Turtle Dove and Quail for
the year 2016, hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the
spring hunting season", shall be from the 17th April to the 30th
April, 2016, both dates included
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 is to terminate
immediately or at a date as specified by the Minister.
For the purposes of these regulations, the spring hunting
season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the framework
laid down by the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for
Allowing a Derogation Opening a 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 5,000 for Turtle Dove and
5,000 for 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 set the daily bag limit to
two (2) birds and the spring hunting season’s bag limit to four (4)
birds per Spring Hunting Licence or however many below this
number might have been hunted before the season closed.
(3) 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 is to terminate
immediately or at a date as specified by the Minister.