New general licences start at midnight.

[HolzKopf]

Have already posted this under previous thread "Two days to shoot pigeons' https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/two-days-to-shoot-pigeons.283496/page-18
What's the shooting criteria all about only mentioning s/a shotguns?

HK

 

[C.J]

What this licence permits: Subject to all the terms and conditions of this licence and solely for the purpose(s) stated above, this licence permits authorised persons:

i. to kill or take wild birds of any of the species listed at (a) and (b) below, to take, damage or destroy their nests or to take or destroy their eggs:

(a)

• Carrion crow - Corvus corone
• Jackdaw - Corvus monedula
• Magpie - Pica pica
• Pigeon, Feral - Columba livia
• Rook - Corvus frugilegus
• Woodpigeon - Columba palumbus

(b)

• Goose, Canada - Branta Canadensis
• Parakeet, Monk - Myiopsitta monachus
• Parakeet, Ring-necked - Psittacula krameri
• Goose, Egyptian - Alopochen aegyptiacus

ii. and when acting under (i) above to use any otherwise lawful methods and any of the following methods prohibited by Section 5 of the 1981 Act:

(a) a semi-automatic weapon;





Section 5 of the 1981 wildlife and countryside act prohibits the use of automatic and semi automatic weapons.

Therefore ii (a) permits the use of semi auto weapons for controlling the 10 species listed.

 

[HolzKopf]

Thank you @C.J - that's very clear
HK