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The Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

S.I. 1994/1152 · Made 25 April 1994

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WILDLIFE

Made 25th April 1994

Laid before Parliament 3rd May 1994

Coming into force 24th May 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7(1) and (2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981f1, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1981 c. 69.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Citation and commencement
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 24th May 1994.

2Citation and commencement

The Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982f1shall be amended as follows—

(a)

for paragraph (1) of regulation 5 there shall be substituted—

“(1)

Every bird to which these regulations apply shall be ringed with a ring obtained from the Secretary of State.”; and

(b)

the Schedule shall be omitted.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Robert Atkins

Minister of State

Department of the Environment

25th April 1994

Explanatory note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

Section 7 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the Act”) and regulations made under that section (the Wildlife and Countryside (Registraion and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 as amended by the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 1991) (“the Registration and Ringing Regulations”) provide for the registration and, in certain cases, ringing of captive birds included in Schedule 4 to the Act.

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 4) Order 1994(S.I. 1994/1151) varies Schedule 4 to the Act.

These Regulations are consequential on S.I. 1994/1151 and amend the Registration and Ringing Regulations to require every bird included in Schedule 4 to the Act to be ringed with a ring obtained from the Secretary of State.