Scottish Government

SEGEN 11

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Licence to Permit the Competitive Showing of Certain Captive Bred Live Birds

(Which do not require a ring)

Purpose

The purpose of this licence is to allow the showing for competitive purposes of captive-bred live birds (as defined below), of the species contained in the Annex to this licence.

Draft Conditions

1. Any bird shown under the terms of this licence must have been bred in captivity. A bird shall not be treated as having been bred in captivity unless its parents were lawfully in captivity when the egg from which it hatched was laid. Documentary evidence of captive breeding must accompany any bird shown under the terms of this licence.

2. The owner or keeper of any bird shown under the terms of this licence must if requested by an official of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department or the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs or a Police Officer make the bird available for a sample of blood to be taken. The blood sample will be taken by a qualified veterinary surgeon. Such a sample may be used to establish the ancestry of the bird.

Notes

1. Section 6(3) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 provides that it shall be an offence if any person shows or causes or permits to be shown for the purposes of any competition or in any premises in which a competition is being held - a) any live wild bird other than a bird included in Part I of Schedule 3; or b) any live bird one of whose parents was such a wild bird. Section 16(1)(f) provides that Section 6(3) does not apply to anything done, for the purposes of any public examination or competition, under and in accordance with the terms of a licence granted by the appropriate authority.

2. "Wild bird" is defined in Section 27 of the Act as "any bird of a species which is ordinarily resident in or is a visitor to any member State or the European territory of any member State in a wild state but does not include poultry or, except in sections 5 and 16 of the Act, any game bird". in a wild state".

3. The species of bird listed in the Annex to this licence (which are rare visitors to Britain) are not covered by licence SEGEN/10 (which covers most other species of resident and visiting birds, except those on Part I of Schedule 3 to the Act). Schedule 3 birds are covered by separate ringing requirements under Section 6(5) of the Act and SI 1982/1221.

Annex to SEGEN/11