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. 279 of 2013)

B 3561 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 3561 L.N. 279 of 2013 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT (CAP. 504) Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) (Amendment) 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, the Minister for Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change has made the following regulations: Citation. S.L. 504.113 1. The title of these regulations is the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live-Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Conservation of Wild Birds (Framework for Allowing a Derogation Opening an Autumn Live Capturing Season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations". Amends regulation 3 of the principal regulations. 2. The second proviso to regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new proviso: "Provided further that, when establishing the duration of any Autumn live-capturing season, the Minister shall establish the overall seasonal bag limit for each of the relevant species, and may also decide on whether to establish the individual daily bag limit for each licence and the individual seasonal bag limit for each licence to be allowed for that particular Autumn live capturing derogation.". Amends regulation 6 of the principal regulations. 3. Paragraph (b) of regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new paragraph: "(b) specify the daily bag limit of birds and the total Autumn live-capturing seasonal bag limit for each licence, provided that such bag limits are established by the Minister;". Substitutes references to "the Director" in the principal regulations. 4. In regulation 2 (in the definition of "xagħri"), sub regulations (1) and (4) of regulation 4, paragraphs (d), (g) and (j) of regulation 6, and sub-regulation (3) of regulation 7 of the principal regulations, for the words "the Director", wherever they occur, there shall be substituted the words "the Wild Birds Regulation Unit". B 3562 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA 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