S.I. No. 121/1952 - Wild Birds (County Monaghan) Order, 1952.

S.I. No. 121 of 1952.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY MONAGHAN) ORDER, 1952.

WHEREAS the County Manager of the County of Monaghan has applied to the Minister for Justice for an order prohibiting the taking or destroying in the County of Monaghan of the eggs of any wild bird other than the cormorant, the hoodie crow, the magpie and the woodpigeon because of the usefulness of wild birds to agriculture :

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, hereby, because of the usefulness of wild birds to agriculture, order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Wild Birds (County Monaghan) Order, 1952.

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

3.—(1) No person shall take or destroy in the County of Monaghan the eggs of any wild bird.

(2) Paragraph (1) of this Article shall not apply to the eggs of the cormorant, the hoodie crow, the magpie and the woodpigeon.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 10th day of May, 1952.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND.

Minister for Justice.