European Communities (Conservation of Wild Birds (West Donegal Coast Special Protection Area 004150)) Regulations 2010.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Conservation of Wild Birds (West Donegal Coast Special Protection Area 004150)) Regulations 2010.
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 30th July 2010.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations—
(a) a Minister of the Government;
(b) a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37 of 2001); or,
(c) a board or other body (but not including a company under theCompanies Acts) established by or under statute;
(2) A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in the Directive shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have in these Regulations the meaning that it has in the Directive.
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paragraphs: In order to ensure the survival and reproduction of the species to which Article 4 of the Directive relates, including in particular the species specified in Schedule 3 and having taken account of the matters referred to in Article 4 of the Directive, the area referred to in Schedule 2 and further identified byreference to the maps contained in Schedule 1, is designated as a SpecialProtection Area.
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paragraphs: (1) (a)The map contained in Schedule 1 showing the boundary of the Special Protection Area shall be drawn to such convenient scale as the Minister thinks fit and the Minister shall seal the map and shall deposit it in the offices of the Minister.
(b) The Minister may prepare more detailed maps, in such convenient number of separate sheets as the Minister thinks fit, showing the boundary of the Special Protection Area and shall seal each of the maps and shall deposit them in the offices of the Minister.
(2) The said maps when so deposited in the said offices of the Minister shall be retained in such office and such maps, or true copies thereof, shall be open for inspection free of charge in such offices by any person at any time at which such offices are open for the transaction of public business, and it shall be lawful for the Minister to prepare and supply to any person requesting the same a true copy of the map so deposited with the Minister or any particular part or sheet thereof and to charge for such copy such sum as the Minister may fix.
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paragraphs: (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not perform any operation or activity specified in Schedule 4 in the Special Protection Area without the prior written consent of the Minister.
(2) There is no requirement to obtain the consent of the Minister if:—
(a) the operation or activity is licensed by or subject to the permission of another public authority, or
(b) the operation or activity is specified as permitted in a farm or land management plan (subject to compliance with any conditions set out therein).
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paragraphs: (1) Any person who contravenes Regulation 4(1) commits an offence and is liable:—
(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both, or
(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €500,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years, or both.
(2) A summary offence under these Regulations may be prosecuted by the Minister.
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paragraphs: (1) The European Communities (Conservation of Wild Birds (Tormore Island SPA 004126)) Regulations 2004 ( S.I. No. 908 of 2004 ) are revoked.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)—
(a) any civil or criminal proceedings brought under the Regulations revoked in paragraph (1) and pending when these Regulations come into operation may be continued as if they had been brought under these Regulations.
(b) any document, notice, decision, act or thing issued, made or done by the Minister under the Regulations revoked in paragraph (1) shall continue to have full force and effect on and after the commencement of these Regulations.
(c) any act, decision or other thing commenced but not completed by the Minister under the Regulations revoked in paragraph (1) may be continued and completed by the Minister under these Regulations.