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its stages last year in that certain amendments made therein in 

 the House of Lords are incorporated as alternative to the original 

 provisions. Under the Bill as it is now presented, County Councils 

 are empowered to apply for an order — 



(1). For the prohibition of taking eggs within specified areas ; 

 (2). For the prohibition of taking the eggs of named species 



of birds ; 

 (3). For the addition of any bird, not included in the schedule 

 of the original Act, to the said schedule. 



A Bill to Amend the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880. 



Whereas it is expedient to provide for the better protection 

 of certain species of wild birds in the United Kingdom : 



Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 

 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 

 and by the authority of the same as follows : 



1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Wild Birds 

 Protection Act, 1894, and shall be construed as one with the Wild 

 Birds Protection Act, 1880 (hereinafter referred to as "the 

 principal Act"), except as hereinafter provided. 



2. A Secretary of State may, after the passing of this Act, 

 upon application by the County Council of any administrative 

 county by order prohibit — 



(1). The taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs in any year 

 or years in any place or places within that county ; or 



(2). The taking or destroying the eggs of any specified kind 

 of wild birds within that county or parts thereof, as 

 recommended by the said County Council and set forth 

 in the said order. 



(3). The application by the County Council shall specify the 

 limits of the place or places, or otherwise, the particular 

 species of wild birds to which it is proposed that any 

 prohibition in the order is to apply, and shall set 

 forth the reasons on account of which the application 

 is made. 



3. A Secretary of State may, on the representation of the 

 council of any administrative county, order that the principal 

 Act shall apply within that county or any part or parts thereof to 





