# Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Section 6: Sale etc. of live or dead wild birds, eggs etc.

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, if any person—
(a) sells, offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession or transports for the purpose of sale, any live wild bird other than a bird included in Part I of Schedule 3, or an egg of a wild bird or any part of such an egg; or
(b) publishes or causes to be published any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that he buys or sells, or intends to buy or sell, any of those things,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Part, if any person. . . —
(a) sells, offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession or transports for the purpose of sale, any dead wild bird other than a bird included in Part II or III of Schedule 3, or any part of, or anything derived from, such a wild bird; or
(b) publishes or causes to be published any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that he buys or sells, or intends to buy or sell, any of those things,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Part, if any person shows or causes or permits to be shown for the purposes of any competition or in any premises in which a competition is being held—
(a) any live wild bird other than a bird included in Part I of Schedule 3; or
(b) any live bird one of whose parents was such a wild bird,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
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(5) Any reference in this section to any bird included in Part 1 of Schedule 3 is a reference to any bird included in that Part which—
(a) was bred in captivity,
(b) has been ringed or marked in accordance with regulations made by the Secretary of State, and
(c) has not been lawfully released into the wild as part of a re-population or re-introduction programme.
(5A) “ Re-population ” and “ re-introduction ” have the same meaning as in the Wild Birds Directive.
(5B) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (5)(b) may make different provision for different birds or different provisions of this section.
(6) Any reference in this section to any bird included in Part II or III of Schedule 3 is a reference to any bird included in Part II and, during the period commencing with 1st September in any year and ending with 28th February of the following year, any bird included in Part III of that Schedule.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/section-6
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