S.L. 549.106 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 549. Cap. 492. S.L. 549.42 S.L. 549.90 S.L. 549.42

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"the Act" means the Environment Protection Act or any other

Act substituting the said Act; "captive-bred" means a bird which has been hatched and bred from legally acquired parental stock in a human controlled environment and has been marked by a seamless closed ring, or, in the case of a specimen that does not naturally occur in the wild state within the territory of the European Union, is accompanied by documentation proving to the satisfaction of the Wild Birds Regulation Unit the captive-bred origin of the specimen; "closed ring" means a ring or band in a continuous circle, without any break or join, which has not been tampered with in any way, of a size which cannot be removed from a bird specimen hatched and bred from legally acquired parental stock in a human controlled environment when its leg is fully grown after having been applied in the first days of the specimen’s life, and which has been approved by the Wild Birds Regulation Unit;

"falconer" means a person licensed by the Wild Birds Regulation Unit to practice the activity of falconry in accordance with these regulations; "falconry" means the sport of hunting or taking quarry species with a falcon and shall include the keeping, flying, training and, or, the display of such trained falcon; "falconry organisation" means an organisation representing the persons practising the activity of falconry and which has, in its statute, the main objective of promoting the activity of falconry and its traditions, and which is enrolled with the Commissioner of Voluntary Organisations under the Voluntary Organisations Act;

"falcon" or "falconry species" means a captive-bred, close-ringed specimen that is used for the purpose of practising falconry, which forms part of the order Falconiformes, Strigiformes or Accipitriformes, including hybrids between such specimens; "licence" means a licence issued in accordance with these regulations; "quarry species" means the species listed in Schedule II of the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations and in the Protection of

Wild Rabbit Regulations; as well as captive-bred specimens of the above species which may be released by the falconer for the purpose of training his falcon; "real-time-tracking" means a system that allows the tracking of the location of the falconry species in real time by virtue of electronic devices, such as, but not solely limited to, radio tracking, GPS tracking and GSM tracking;

"static display" means an activity that involves the display of falcons that are tethered or otherwise constrained from free flight; "Wild Birds Regulation Unit" means the Wild Birds Regulation Unit established in accordance with the Conservation of Wild Birds Regulations.