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 SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER)

REGULATIONS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.118

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS

(DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR AN

AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON FOR

SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER)

REGULATIONS

19th October, 2017

LEGAL NOTICE 295 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 Song Thrush and Golden Plover) 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 Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations.

For the purposes of establishing the period for the live-

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

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

regulations, the period for the live-capturing of Song Thrush and

Golden Plover for the year 2017, hereinafter referred to as "the

Autumn live-capturing season", shall be from the 20 th October 2017 to

the 31 st 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 Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations.

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR AN AUTUMN 2017 LIVE-CAPTURING

SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER)

REGULATIONS

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 5,000 for Song Thrush and 700 for Golden Plover as the total

number of birds which may be live-captured under the authority of all

issued licences taken together.