Wild Birds Protection Act, 1930
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Prohibition of export of wild birds. |
8.—Every person who shall export, or attempt to export, or cause to be exported or attempted to be exported, from Saorstát Eireann for the purpose of sale any live wild bird of any of the kinds of wild birds specified in the Second Schedule to this Act shall be guilty of an offence under this section, and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence to a penalty not exceeding ten shillings for each bird in respect of which the offence was committed and, in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a penalty not exceeding two pounds for each bird in respect of which the offence was committed or alternatively or in addition to such last mentioned penalty to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen days. |