CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2021 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2021 SPRING HUNTING SEASON

FOR QUAIL)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.142

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2021 SPRING HUNTING

SEASON FOR QUAIL) REGULATIONS

14th April, 2021

LEGAL NOTICE 163 of 2021.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2021 Spring Hunting Season

for Quail) Regulations.

Words and expressions used in these regulations, unless

the context otherwise requires, shall have the same meaning as

assigned 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 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 2021,

hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the Spring hunting

season", shall be from the 10th April to the 30th April, 2021, 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 two thousand and four

hundred (2,400) 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.