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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2022 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL)
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CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A
DEROGATION FOR A 2022 SPRING HUNTING SEASON
FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.148
CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION
ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2022 SPRING HUNTING
SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL)
REGULATIONS
8th April, 2022
LEGAL NOTICE 116 of 2022.
The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild
Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2022 Spring Hunting Season
for Turtle Dove and 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 regulation 10(6)
of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of these
regulations, the period for the hunting of Quail in Spring 2022, shall be
from the 10th April to the 30th April, 2022, both dates included, from
two (2) hours before sunrise until noon. The period for the hunting of
Turtle Dove in Spring 2022, shall be from the 17th April to the 30th
April, 2022, 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, and at one thousand and five hundred (1,500)
Turtle Dove, 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
CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A
DEROGATION FOR A 2022 SPRING HUNTING SEASON
FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL)
at a date as specified by the Minister.