CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2020 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2020 SPRING HUNTING SEASON

FOR QUAIL)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.133

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2020 SPRING HUNTING

SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

9th April, 2020

LEGAL NOTICE 140 of 2020.

The title of these regulations is Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2020 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 sub-regulation

(6) of regulation 10 of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes

of these regulations, the period for the hunting of Quail in Spring

2020, hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the Spring

hunting season", shall be from the 10th April to the 30th April, 2020,

both dates included, from two (2) hours before sunrise until noon

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 shall 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 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 five-thousand (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 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 shall terminate immediately or

at a date as specified by the Minister.