The Wildlife and Countryside (Registration, Ringing and Marking of Certain Captive Birds) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Registration

3.—(1) The National Assembly must, for the purposes of section 7(1) of the Act, maintain a register of birds to which these Regulations apply which are kept at addresses in Wales.

(2) An application for registration must be made by the keeper, or prospective keeper, of the bird to which the application relates on a form obtained from the National Assembly.

(3) On receiving an application for registration the National Assembly must, subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), enter the relevant information on the register.

(4) The National Assembly must not register any bird to which these Regulations apply unless it is satisfied that the bird has been ringed or marked in accordance with regulation 5.

(5) The National Assembly must require an application to be accompanied by such reasonable charge for registration as it has determined under section 7(2A) of the Act and may decline to make an entry in the register in respect of an application until that charge has been paid.

(6) If the registered keeper of a bird notifies the National Assembly in writing that the bird is to cease to be kept at the registered address, stating the date when that is to occur and specifying another address in Wales at which the bird is to be kept after that date, the National Assembly must, provided notification is received before that date, amend the registered address accordingly with effect from that date.