LegalizeS.I. No. 282/1980 - Wildlife Act 1976 (Protection of Wild Animals) Regulations, 1980
This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.
S.I. No. 282 of 1980.
WILDLIFE ACT 1976 (PROTECTION OF WILD ANIMALS) REGULATIONS, 1980.
I, PATRICK POWER, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 23 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), as adapted by the Fisheries (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1978 ), after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, hereby make the following regulations:
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Wildlife Act, 1976 (Protection of Wild Animals) Regulations, 1980.
2.
These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1980.
3.
The Common Frog, Common Lizard, Common Newt, Pygmy Shrew and Stoat are each hereby declared to be an animal to which section 23 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), applies.
GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 10th day of September, 1980.
PATRICK POWER,
Minister for Fisheries and Forestry.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
The effect of these Regulations is to add the Common Frog, Common Lizard, Common Newt, Pygmy Shrew and Stoat to the list of protected species mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to the Wildlife Act, 1976 . It will be an offence to hunt, take or kill any of these species or wilfully to interfere with or destroy their breeding places.
This document does not substitute the official text published in the Irish Statute Book. We accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the transcription of the original into this format.
This text is published under Irish Statute Book's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
Irish Statute Book
CC-BY 4.0 (Oireachtas Open Data PSI Licence)
Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under the Oireachtas (Houses of the Oireachtas) Open Data PSI Licence / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, sourced from https://www.irishstatutebook.ie.