Proclamation dated 24th of May, 1974 made under section 13 of the Wild Birds Protection Act (S.R.O. No. 26/1974)

LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Wild Birds Protection CHAPTER 472 (CAP. 472 THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT S.R.O. 26/1974, PROCLAMATION DATED THE 24TH DAY OF MAY, 1974 MADE UNDER SECTION 13 OF THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION ACT. WHEREAS by section 13 of the Wild Birds Protection Act it is provided that the Governor-General may, with regard to any wild bird specified in Schedule B to the said Act and with respect to the whole or any particular part of Antigua and Barbuda, extend or vary by Proclamation, the prohibited time specified under section 4 of the said Act, for killing, wounding, taking, exposing, offering for sale and purchasing of any wild bird, or for taking, removing, injur ing or destroying the nest or eggs of any wild birds: NOW, THEREFORE, the Governor-General doth by this Proclamation (1) vary the prohibited time for killing, wounding, tak ing, exposing, offering for sale and purchasing of any of the hereinafter mentioned wild birds or for taking, removing, injuring, or destroying the nest or eggs of any such hereinaftermentioned wild birds, namely 2 CAP. 472) LAWS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Wild Birds Protection IA. White Crown Pigeon 1B. Ramier Pigeon Z. Partridge 3. Wood dove 4. Ground dove 5. Quail 7. West Indian Thrush 9. Mountain dove, to the effect that the close season for such wild birds for the purposes of section 4 of the Act is from the first day of March to the thirty-first day of July both inclusive in any year; and (2) vary the prohibited time for killing, wounding, tak ing, exposing, offering for sale and purchasing of any of the hereinaftermentioned wild birds or for taking, removing, injuring or destroying the nest or eggs of any such hereinaftermentioned wild bird 6. Coots (red and white seal) 8A. Whistler (West Indian tree duck) 8B. All wild ducks other than Whistler (West Indian tree duck), to the effect that the close season for such wild birds for the purposes of section 4 of the Act shall be from the first day of March to the thirtieth day of September both inclusive in any year.