DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2012 AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER REGULATIONS

DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2012

AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON

FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.75

DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2012

AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG

THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER REGULATIONS

25th September, 2012

LEGAL NOTICE 304 of 2012.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a derogation for a 2012 Autumn live-

capturing season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) 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", and i n the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations.

For the purposes of establishing the period for the live-

capturing of wild birds under regulation 10(6)(t)(i),(ii) and (iii) of

t h e Wi l d B i r d s R e g u l a t i o n s , a n d f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f t h e s e

regulations, the period for the live-capturing of Song Thrush and

Golden Plover for the year 2012, hereinafter referred to as "the

Autumn live-capturing season", shall be on the following dates

(a) live-capturing of Song Thrush between the 20th

October 2012 and the 31st December 2012, both dates

included;

(b) live-capturing of Golden Plover between the 20th

October 2012 and the 10th January 2013, both dates

included.

For the purposes of these regulations, the Autumn live-

capturing season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the

Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation

Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and

Golden Plover) Regulations.

(1) The Autumn live-capturing licence, which shall be

issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of two euro (€2), shall set

the overall seasonal bag limit for the Autumn live-capturing season

at 5,000 for Song Thrush and 1,150 for Golden Plover as the total

number of birds which may be captured under the authority of all

issued licences taken together.

(2) The Autumn live-capturing licence shall set the daily bag

limit to three (3) birds and the Autumn live-capturing season’s bag

limit to six (6) birds for each Autumn live-capturing licence or

however many below this number might have been captured before

the season closed.

DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2012

AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING SEASON

FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER