CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR AN AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON FOR

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR AN AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING

SEASON FOR FINCHES) REGULATIONS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.117

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS

(DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR AN

AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON FOR

FINCHES) REGULATIONS

19th October, 2017

LEGAL NOTICE 294 of 2017.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for an Autumn 2017 Live-

Capturing Season for Finches) 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", and in the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Finches) Regulations.

For the purposes of establishing the period for the live-

capturing of wild birds in Autumn under regulation 10(6)(ii) and (iii)

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

the period for the live-capturing of Finches for the year 2017,

hereinafter referred to as "the Autumn live-capturing season", shall be

on the following dates

Live-capturing of Common Linnet, European Goldfinch,

European Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Hawfinch, Common Chaffinch

and European Serin shall occur between the 20th October 2017 and the

31st December 2017, both dates included

Provided that the provisions of these regulations shall

cease to have effect and no live-capturing activity shall be permitted in

the event that the Minister orders, by notice in the Gazette or any other

notice, that the Autumn live-capturing season is to terminate

immediately or at a date as specified by the Minister.

For the purposes of these regulations, the Autumn live-

capturing season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Finches), Regulations.

(1)

The Autumn Live-capturing licence, which shall

be issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of fifty-five euro (€55),

shall set the overall seasonal bag limit for the Autumn live-capturing

season at 12,000 for Common Linnet, 800 for European Goldfinch,

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR AN AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING

SEASON FOR FINCHES) REGULATIONS

4,500 for European Greenfinch, 2,350 for Eurasian Siskin, 500 for

Hawfinch, 5,000 for Common Chaffinch and 2,350 for European Serin

as the total number of birds which may be live-captured under the

authority of all issued licences taken together.

(2)

The Autumn live-capturing licence shall set the live-

capturing season’s bag limit to ten (10) finches for each Autumn live-

capturing licence or however many below this number might have

been captured before the season is closed.