SELMUNETT ISLANDS (ST. PAUL ISLANDS) NATURE RESERVE REGULATIONS

SELMUNETT ISLANDS (ST. PAUL ISLANDS) NATURE RESERVE

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.03

SELMUNETT ISLANDS (ST. PAUL ISLANDS)

NATURE RESERVE REGULATIONS

2nd March, 1993

LEGAL NOTICE 25 of 1993, as amended by Legal Notice 426 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is the Sehnunett Islands (St.

Paul Islands) Nature Reserve Regulations.

In these regulations "flora and fauna" are to be construed

as meaning all plants and animals, resident or migratory, species of

which exist in the wild state on Selmunett Islands, also known as

St. Paul Islands.

All the surface area of Selmunett Islands (St. Paul Islands)

shall be a protected nature reserve.

(1) The killing, capture, collection, trapping, maintaining

in captivity, taxidermy, commercial exploitation, as well as picking

and hunting of any species of flora and fauna in or from the

Selmunett Islands (St. Paul Islands) Nature Reserve is prohibited.

(2) The Minister may remove such prohibition as referred to in

subregulation (1) for the purpose of scientific study in particular

cases.

Access to the Selmunett Islands (St. Paul Islands) is only

permissible between sunrise and sunset and then only for

swimming, berthing of sea craft and walking along designated

footpaths. All other activities, such as camping and barbecues, are

prohibited.

Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of these

regulations or any condition of a permission granted under

regulation 4, shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a

term not exceeding three months, or to a fine (multa) not exceeding

one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine

cents (€1,164.69), or to both such imprisonment and fine.