# The Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1221) “the principal Regulations”).
Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations. It provides that a registration which was made before 1st April 1991 shall expire on 1st September 1993, and that any registration made on or after 1st April 1991 shall expire at the end of a period of three years from the date on which the registration was made. It further provides that certain re-registrations shall expire on the date the previous registration would have expired under regulation 4(1) but for the application of regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations.
Regulation 3 amends the provisions of regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations. It specifies the cases and circumstances in which a temporary or permanent change of circumstances in relation to a registered bird will not result in the expiry of the registration of that bird.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/478/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-registration-and-ringing-of-certain-captive-birds-amendment-regulations-1991/note
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