§ From and after the passing of this Act the powers exercisable by the Secretary of State on application under Section eight of the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, shall extend to the making of an order prohibiting, for special reasons mentioned in the application, the taking or killing of particular kinds of wild birds during the whole or any part of that period of the year to which the protection of wild birds under that Act does not extend, or the taking or killing of all wild birds in particular places during the whole or any part of that period.
§ MR. HERBERT LEWISthought that the Committee were entitled to some explanation as to the object of this clause.
§ MR. BIGWOOD (Middlesex, Brentford)said that the clause was intended to extend the powers now possessed by the Secretary of State to make regulations for the protection of wild birds, the existing powers not being sufficient in certain parts of the year. The clause merely proposed to extend those powers over a further period of the year.
§ Clause ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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