Welcoming speech by the Special Represenative for the German OSCE Chairmanship Dr. Gernot Erler
Section 5 of the principal Act (prohibition of certain methods of killing or taking wild birds) shall be amended as follows.
At the end of subsection (1)(d) “or” shall be omitted.
At the end of subsection (1)(e) there shall be inserted—; or .
The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (4)—.
Section 11 of the principal Act (prohibition of certain methods of killing or taking wild animals) shall be amended as follows.
In subsection (1)—
at the end of paragraph (b) “or” shall be omitted; and
at the end of paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—; or .
In subsection (2)—
at the end of paragraph (d) “or” shall be omitted; and
at the end of paragraph (e) there shall be inserted—; or .
In subsection (3)(a), after “position” there shall be inserted “or knowingly causes or permits to be set in position”.
In subsection (5), after “(e)”, there shall be inserted “and in any proceedings for an offence under subsection (1)(d) or (2)(f) relating to an act which is mentioned in any of those paragraphs”.
The following subsection shall be added after subsection (6)—.
This Act may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside (Amendment) Act 1991.
In this Act references to the principal Act are references to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day it is passed.
This Act shall not have effect in relation to anything done before it comes into force.
This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.