Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013 (L.N. 280 of 2013)

B 3565 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 3565 L.N. 280 of 2013 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT (CAP. 504) Conservation of Wild Birds (Declaration on a Derogation for a 2013 Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations, 2013 BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the Environment and Development Planning Act, and in terms of the provisions of regulation 10(6)(t) of the Conservation of Wild Birds’ Regulations, and of regulations 3 and 6 of the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations, the Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change has made the following regulations: Citation.1. 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, 2013. Interpretation. S.L. 504.71 S.L. 504.113 2. 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 in the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations. Establishing of periods. 3. 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 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. B 3566 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 3566 Live-Capturing according to set framework. S.L. 504.113 4. 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. Quotas. 5. (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. 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