5Open season for short-tailed shearwater (muttonbird): muttonbird licences

5 Open season for short-tailed shearwater (muttonbird): muttonbird licences

(1)  [Clause 5 Subclause (1) amended by S.R. 2006, No. 158, Applied:01 Jan 2007] For the holder of a muttonbird licence, the open season for muttonbird in each year is the period starting at 8.00 a.m. on the Saturday nearest 1 April of the year and ending on the third Sunday following that day, except where that day immediately precedes Easter Monday, in which case the period ends on Easter Monday of the year.

(2)  During the open season, juvenile muttonbirds may be taken from the rookeries specified in Schedule 1 to this order.

(3)  [Clause 5 Subclause (3) amended by S.R. 2016, No. 16, Applied:30 Mar 2016] [Clause 5 Subclause (3) amended by S.R. 2016, No. 16, Applied:30 Mar 2016] [Clause 5 Subclause (3) inserted by S.R. 2015, No. 13, Applied:01 Apr 2015] [Clause 5 Subclause (3) omitted by S.R. 2019, No. 14, Applied:27 Mar 2019] [Clause 5 Subclause (3) inserted by S.R. 2022, No. 3, Applied:26 Feb 2022] During an open season, the holder of a muttonbird licence may only take up to 25 muttonbirds in a single day.