S.I. No. 182/1949:

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY MAYO) ORDER, 1949.

WILD BIRDS (COUNTY MAYO) ORDER, 1949.

WHEREAS the County Manager of the County of Mayo has applied to the Minister for Justice for an Order prohibiting the taking or destroying of the eggs of certain wild birds because the birds concerned are, owing to the great increase in the number of egg collectors, subject to great persecution :

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, do 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 as the Wild Birds (County Mayo) Order, 1949.

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

3. No person shall in any part of the County of Mayo take or destroy in either of the years 1949 or 1950, the eggs of any of the following wild birds :--chough, diver (all kinds), petrel, golden eagle, sea eagle, peregrine falcon, phalarope (all kinds), raven, tern (all kinds), eider duck, black-necked grebe, song thrush, blackbird and dunlin or sea-lark.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 9th day of June, 1949.

(Signed) SEÁN MAC EOIN,

Minister for Justice.