S.I. No. 144/1949 - Wild Birds (County Wicklow) Order, 1949.

S.I. No. 144 of 1949.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY WICKLOW) ORDER, 1949.

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

NOW, I, SEÁN MAC EOIN, 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 Wicklow) Order, 1949.

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 Wicklow the eggs of any wild bird other than the hoodie crow and the magpie.

(2) The Wild Birds (County Wicklow) Order, 1946 ( S. R. & O. No. 301 of 1946 ), is hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of May, 1949.

(Signed) SEÁN MAC EOIN,

Minister for Justice.