CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2017 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2017 SPRING HUNTING

SEASON FOR QUAIL)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.112

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2017 SPRING HUNTING

SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

14th March, 2017

LEGAL NOTICE 83 of 2017.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2017 Spring Hunting Season

for 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 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 Quail in spring 2017,

hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the spring hunting

season", shall be from the 25th March to the 14th April, 2017, 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 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 five (5) Quail and the spring hunting season’s bag limit to ten (10)

Quail per Spring Hunting Licence or however many below this

number might have been hunted before the season closed.

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2017 SPRING HUNTING

SEASON FOR QUAIL)

(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.