The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Control of gatherings of people in a protection zone

6.—(1) A person shall not hold or take part in the following activities in a protection zone—

(a) hunting including hunting any drag or other trail;

(b) falconry, except under a licence granted by the Department;

(c) point-to-point meetings;

(d) stalking;

(e) shooting game or other wildlife or deer, except that—

(i) the occupier of any land, members of his household, persons employed by him as beaters and any member of a shooting party of not more than three persons authorised by him, may shoot game, other wildlife or deer found on that land;

(ii) a person may shoot birds under the authority of a licence granted by the Department; and

(iii) a person may cull deer under the authority of a licence granted by the Department.

(2) Where holding any recreational or sporting activity may, in the opinion of the Department, spread disease, it may prohibit it by serving notice on the person responsible for the activity.

(3) In this paragraph “falconry” means the use of birds of the order Falconiformae to hunt for game or other wildlife.