S.I. No. 224/1944 - Wild Birds (County Wexford) Order, 1944.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1944. No. 224.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY WEXFORD) ORDER, 1944.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of section 7 of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930 (No. 16 of 1930), that the Minister for Justice may, by order made on the application of the council of a county or a county borough, prohibit, for reasons stated in such application, the taking or destroying either generally or in any particular years or year in such county or county borough or any particular parts or part thereof of the eggs of any wild bird whatsoever or any particular kinds or kind of wild bird :

AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Wexford has applied to the Minister for Justice, because of the rarity of the birds concerned and the attraction they provide, to make an Order prohibiting in such of the years 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1948 in the County of Wexford the taking or destroying of the eggs of any of the following wild birds, that is to say :—Puffin, guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake, shearwater, shelduck, rockdove, oyster-catcher, peregrine falcon, raven, avocet and spoonbill :

NOW, I, GERALD BOLAND, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 7 of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930 (No. 16 of 1930), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby, because of the rarity of the birds concerned and the attraction they provide, order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Wild Birds (County Wexford) Order, 1944.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. No person shall in any part of the County of Wexford take or destroy in any of the years 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1948 the eggs of any of the following wild birds, that is to say :—Puffin, guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake, shearwater, shelduck, rockdove, oyster-catcher, peregrine falcon, raven, avocet and spoonbill.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of June, 1944.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND,

Minister for Justice.