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These Regulations, made under the Local Government Ordinance, provide a variety of rules relative, among other things: public health and town and country planning; keeping of animals; protection of wildlife; public works; and coastal navigation.As for public health and town and country planning, some provisions concern the prevention of pollution, the construction of wells and the use of public water.Provisions on the keeping of animals concern the keeping of goats, poultry and other domestic animals and the prevention of cruelty to animals.Provisions regarding wildlife management and protection concern, among other things, the protection of birds and specified marine mammals and turtles. They also grant power to the Council to create the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals Committee.

Implements: Local Government Ordinance. (2012)
Amended by: Endangered Species Protection Ordinance. (2004)
Amended by: Local Government (Amendment) Regulations 2010. (2010)
Amended by: Local Government (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (No. 3 of 2014). (2014-05-08)

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