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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2018 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS
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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION
ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2018 SPRING
HUNTING SEASON FOR QUAIL)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.121
CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION
ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2018 SPRING HUNTING
SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS
27th March, 2018
LEGAL NOTICE 91 of 2018.
The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild
Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2018 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 "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 2018,
hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the spring hunting
season", shall be from the 1st April to the 21st April, 2018, 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 2018 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.