Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 (L.N. 267 of 2012)

B 2187 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 3 L.N. of 2012 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT (CAP. 504) Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for Tourism, Culture and the Environment has made the following regulations: Citation. S.L. 504.71 1. The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild Birds (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations". Amends regulation 2 of the principal regulations. 2. Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended as follows: (a) for the definition "captive bred", there shall be substituted the following new definition: " "captive bred" means a bird which has been hatched and bred from parental stock in a human controlled environment and has been marked by a seamless closed ring or, where the Director is satisfied that this marking method is not appropriate because of the physical or behavioural properties of the bird, by means of a uniquely numbered, unalterable microchip transponder conforming to ISO Standards 11784: 1996 (E) and 11785: 1996 (E);"; and (b) for the definition "closed ring", there shall be substituted the following new definition: " "closed ring" means a ring or band in a continuous circle, without any break or join, which has not .............................................. .............................................. Prime Minister Minister for Tourism, Culture and the Environment L.N. 267 of 2012 B 2188 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 4 been tampered with in any way, of a size which cannot be removed from the bird when its leg is fully grown after having been applied in the first days of the bird’s life and which has been commercially manufactured for that purpose and which has been approved by the Director;". Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment tal-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta Mitbugħ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern fuq karta riċiklata — Printed at the Government Printing Press on recycled paper Prezz/Price €0.18