Wildlife (Amendment) Act, 2000

Chapter III

Miscellaneous

Amendment of section 41 (falconry etc.) of Principal Act.

47.—Section 41 of the Principal Act is hereby amended in subsection (1):

(a) by the substitution of “Notwithstanding anything contained in section 22 or 23 of this Act, the Minister may make regulations” for “The Minister may make regulations”,

(b) by the substitution, in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), of “owls, buzzards, kites, vultures, harriers and other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes” for “and other birds of the order Falconiformes”,

(c) by the insertion, in paragraph (b), of “breeding or” before “training”, and

(d) by the substitution, in paragraph (d), of the following for subparagraph (ii):

“(ii) take, have in his possession or under his control any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes or the eggs or young of any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes,

(iii) engage in breeding any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other bird of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes,”,

and the said subsection (1) (other than paragraphs (e) and (f)), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

TABLE

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 22 or 23 of this Act, the Minister may make regulations—

(a) regulating hunting by means of eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, buzzards, kites, vultures, harriers and other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes trained to hawk for sport, or otherwise governing the practice of falconry,

(b) regulating the taking of eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, buzzards, kites, vultures, harriers and other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes for breeding or training to hawk for sport,

(c) regulating the possession, breeding, training to hawk for sport, display or exhibition of eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, buzzards, kites, vultures, harriers and other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes,

(d) providing that a person shall not, save under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Minister—

(i) engage in falconry,

(ii) take, have in his possession or under his control any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes or the eggs or young of any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes,

(iii) engage in breeding any eagle, hawk, falcon, owl, buzzard, kite, vulture, harrier or other birds of the orders Accipitriformes, Falconiformes and Strigiformes,