CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2013 AUTUMN LIVE- CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2013 AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING

SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.87

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2013 AUTUMN LIVE-

CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND

GOLDEN PLOVER) REGULATIONS

17th September, 2013

LEGAL NOTICE 280 of 2013.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2013 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 2013, 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 2013 and the 31st December 2013, both dates

included; and

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

October 2013 and the 10th January 2014, 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 license, which shall be

issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of ten euro (€10), 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 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.