Regulation 4 Amendments to the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1)

It is an offence—

(a)

deliberately to capture, injure or kill a wild animal of a European protected species;

(b)

deliberately to disturb such an animal while it is occupying a structure or place which it uses for shelter or protection;

(c)

deliberately to disturb such an animal in such a way as to be likely to—

(i)

affect the local distribution or abundance of the species to which it belongs;

(ii)

impair its ability to survive, breed or reproduce, or rear or care for its young; or

(iii)

impair its ability to hibernate or migrate;

(d)

deliberately to take or destroy the eggs of such an animal;

(e)

deliberately to obstruct access to a breeding site or resting place of such an animal; or

(f)

to damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of such an animal.”; and

omit paragraphs (8), (9) and (10).