S.I. No. 345/1986 - Nature Reserve (Ballyarr Wood) Establishment Order, 1986.


S.I. No. 345 of 1986.

NATURE RESERVE (BALLYARR WOOD) ESTABLISHMENT ORDER, 1986.

I, LIAM KAVANAGH, Minister for Tourism, Fisheries and Forestry, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, the Minister for Communications and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, being satisfied that the land specified in Article 2 of the following Order, being land to which section 15 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), applies, includes a woodland ecosystem which is of scientific interest and that the said ecosystem is likely to benefit if measures are taken for its protection and that it is desirable to establish the said land as a nature reserve and that the proper management of the said land as a nature reserve would not be precluded by any interest of any other person in or over the said land, for the purpose of conserving the said ecosystem do hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15 of the said Act, as adapted by the Fisheries and Forestry (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1986 ( S.I. No. 40 of 1986 ), and amended by section 5 of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983 (No. 40 of 1983), order as follows:

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Nature Reserve (Ballyarr Wood) Establishment Order, 1986.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 14th day of November, 1986.

2. (1) It is hereby declared that the land specified in paragraph (2) of this Article shall constitute and there is hereby established a nature reserve.

(2) The land referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article is all that part of the land known as Ballyarr Wood situate in the townlands of Ballyarr and Ballyarr Glebe and county of Donegal, other than any part thereof which forms part of a public road (if any) provided after the making of this Order, being the area within the inner margin of the black line and hatched in black on the map contained in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Article 2 (2)

BALLYARR WOOD NATURE RESERVE

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GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 30th day of October, 1986.

LIAM KAVANAGH,

Minister for Tourism, Fisheries and

Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order establishes part of the lands situate in the townlands of Ballyarr and Ballyarr Glebe as a nature reserve so that it can be managed in such a way as to ensure the conservation of the woodland ecosystem which it constitutes.