No. 280/1940:

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY MAYO) ORDER, 1940.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY MAYO) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930 (No. 16 of 1930), that the Minister for Justice may by order made on the application of the Council of a county or a county borough, prohibit for reasons stated in such application, the taking or destroying either generally or in any particular years or year in such county or county borough or any particular parts or part thereof of the eggs of any wild bird whatsoever or any particular kinds or kind of wild bird :

AND WHEREAS the Council of the County of Mayo has applied to the Minister for Justice, because the birds concerned are, owing to the great increase in the number of egg collectors, subject to great persecution, to make an order prohibiting in each of the years, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944, in the County of Mayo the taking or destroying of the eggs of any of the following wild birds, that is to say :—chough, divers (all kinds), petrel, golden eagle, sea eagle, peregrine falcon, phalaropes (all kinds), raven, terns (all kinds), eider duck, black-necked grebe, lapwing, song thrush, blackbird, and dunlin or sea-lark :

NOW, I, GERALD BOLAND, 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 to hereby, because the birds concerned are, owing to the great increase in the number of egg collectors, subject to great persecution, order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited for all purposes as the Wild Birds (County Mayo) Order, 1940.

2. This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1941.

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

4. No person shall in any part of the County of Mayo take or destroy in any of the years 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944, the eggs of any of the following wild birds, that is to say :—chough, divers (all kinds), petrel, golden eagle, sea eagle, peregrine falcon, phalaropes (all kinds), raven, terns (all kinds), eider duck, black-necked grebe, lapwing, song thrush, blackbird and dunlin or sea-lark.

Given under my Seal of Office this 26th day of September, 1940.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND,

Minister for Justice.