Section 3(1)

The Secretary of State may by order make provision with respect to any area specified in the order providing for all or any of the following matters, that is to say— that any person who, within that area or any part of it specified in the order, at any time or during any period so specified, intentionally— shall be guilty of an offence under this section; kills, injures or takes any wild bird or any wild bird so specified; takes, damages or destroys the nest of such a bird while that nest is in use or being built; takes or destroys an egg of such a bird; disturbs such a bird while it is building a nest or is in, on or near a nest containing eggs or young; or disturbs dependent young of such a bird, that any person who, except as may be provided in the order, enters into that area or any part of it specified in the order at any time or during any period so specified shall be guilty of an offence under this section; that where any offence under this Part, or any such offence under this Part as may be specified in the order, is committed within that area, the offence shall be treated as falling within section 7(3A).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30