CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2014 AUTUMN LIVE- CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION ON A

DEROGATION FOR A 2014 AUTUMN LIVE-CAPTURING

SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND GOLDEN PLOVER)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 549.92

CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS (DECLARATION

ON A DEROGATION FOR A 2014 AUTUMN LIVE-

CAPTURING SEASON FOR SONG THRUSH AND

GOLDEN PLOVER) REGULATIONS

15th July, 2014

LEGAL NOTICE 251 of 2014.

The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild

Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2014 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)(i), (ii) and (iii) of the

Wild Birds Regulations, and for the purpose of these regulations,

the period for the live-capturing of Song Thrush and Golden Plover

for the year 2014, 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 2014 and the 31st December 2014, both dates

included;

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

October 2014 and the 31st December 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 licence, which shall be

issued upon the payment of a nominal fee of fifty-five euro (€55),

shall set the overall seasonal bag limit for the Autumn live-

capturing season at 5,000 for Song Thrush and 700 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 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 is closed.