S.I. No. 235/1949 - Wild Birds (County Roscommon) Order, 1949.

S.I. No. 235 of 1949.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY ROSCOMMON) ORDER, 1949.

WHEREAS the County Manager of the County of Roscommon has applied to the Minister for Justice for an order prohibiting the taking or destroying in the county of Roscommon of the eggs of any wild bird other than the hoodie crow, the magpie and the woodpigeon because of the difficulty of enforcing an order for the protection of any particular class of bird :

NOW the Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 7 of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930 (No. 16 of 1930), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby, because of the difficulty of enforcing an order for the protection of any particular class of bird, orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Wild Birds (County Roscommon) 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 Roscommon the eggs of any wild bird other than the hoodie crow, the magpie and the woodpigeon.

(2) The Wild Birds (Roscommon) Order, 1931 ( S. R. & O. No. 33 of 1931 ), and the Wild Birds (County Roscommon) Order, 1945 ( S. R. & O. No. 138 of 1945 ), are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Justice this 9th day of August, 1949.

(Signed) THOMAS J. COYNE,

Assistant Secretary,

Department of Justice.