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

Termination of registration

4.—(1) A registration ceases to have effect —

(a) when the registered bird —

(i) dies;

(ii) escapes or is released into the wild;

(iii) is disposed of by way of sale or otherwise;

(iv) is exported from the United Kingdom;

(b) when the ring obtained from the National Assembly, or, as the case may be, the CITES marking, is removed or the identifying information on it or stored within it becomes unreadable;

(c) when the registered bird is kept or possessed by or is under the control of a person other than its registered keeper, unless it is intended at the time when the bird begins to be so kept, possessed or controlled that it will be returned to its registered keeper within the specified period and the bird is so returned, and in this sub-paragraph “the specified period” means —

(i) where the bird will not be kept continuously at its registered address, a period of 3 weeks, and

(ii) where the bird will be kept continuously at its registered address, a period of 6 weeks;

(d) when the registered bird is kept or possessed by or is under the control of its registered keeper but ceases to be kept at its registered address, unless —

(i) it is intended at the time when the bird ceases to be so kept that it will be returned to its registered address within 3 weeks and the bird is so returned, or

(ii) the National Assembly is notified in writing before the bird ceases to be so kept of the new address at which it will be kept and the date from which it will be so kept, and that new address is in Wales.

(2) In regulation 3(6) and in paragraph (1)(c) and (d) above, “registered keeper” in relation to a registered bird means the person registered as keeper of the bird in the register maintained by the National Assembly under regulation 3(1), and “registered address” means the address registered in that register as that at which the bird is kept.