The Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Amendments to the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

4.  In regulation 34 (protection of wild animals)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) It is an offence—

(a) deliberately to capture, injure or kill a wild animal of a European protected species;

(b) deliberately to disturb such an animal while it is occupying a structure or place which it uses for shelter or protection;

(c) deliberately to disturb such an animal in such a way as to be likely to—

(i) affect the local distribution or abundance of the species to which it belongs;

(ii) impair its ability to survive, breed or reproduce, or rear or care for its young; or

(iii) impair its ability to hibernate or migrate;

(d) deliberately to take or destroy the eggs of such an animal;

(e) deliberately to obstruct access to a breeding site or resting place of such an animal; or

(f) to damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of such an animal.”; and

(b) omit paragraphs (8), (9) and (10).