CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2014 SPRING HUNTING SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2014 SPRING HUNTING SEASON

FOR TURTLE DOVE AND QUAIL

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.88

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2014 SPRING

HUNTING SEASON FOR TURTLE DOVE

AND QUAIL REGULATIONS

21st March, 2014

LEGAL NOTICE 87 of 2014.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2014 Spring Hunting

Season for Turtle Dove and Quail) 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".

For the purposes of the second proviso to regulation 10(6)

of the Wild Birds Regulations and for the purposes of these

regulations, the period for the hunting of Turtle Dove and Quail for

the year 2014, hereinafter in these regulations referred to as "the

spring hunting season", shall be from the 12th April to the 30th

April, 2014, both dates included.

For the purposes of these regulations, the spring hunting

season shall be in accordance with the provisions of the framework

laid down by the Conservation of Wild Birds (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 11,000 for Turtle Dove and

5,000 for 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 set the daily bag limit to

two (2) birds and the spring hunting season’s bag limit to four (4)

birds per Spring Hunting License or however many below this

number might have been hunted before the season closed.