Bermuda Consolidated Legislation

 

BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

SR&O 22/1976

NATURE RESERVES (TERN NESTING AREAS) ORDER 1976

[made under the Protection of Birds Act 1975 [title 25 item 19] and brought into operation on 1 March 1975]

Certain islets to be nature reserves

1 (1) The lands, being lands the property of the Government or in the ownership of persons who have consented to the making of this Or der, and consisting largely of unnamed islets located in Harrington Sound, the Great Sound and Hamilton Harbour which are used as breeding and nesting areas by the common tern, Sterna hirundo, and which are marked on ordnance maps deposited by the Minister with the Registrar-General and thereon circled in red, are hereby declared to be nature reserves.

(2) Certified copies of the ordnance maps mentioned in para graph (1) shall be deposited at the office of the Department in the Botanical Gardens, the Department of Marine and Ports Services and the Department of Works and Engineering and the copies so deposited shall be made available for inspection by any person free of charge at any time when such offices are open to the public.

[paragraph [2] amended by 1991:99 effective 1 January 1992]

Commencement

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