Wildlife Act, 1976 (Wildlife Dealing) Regulations, 1977 (S.I. No. 253 of 1977).

These Regulations are concerned with the business of purchase and resale of wild fauna (dead or alive) protected under the Wildlife Act, 1976. The Regulations prescribe, inter alia, the form and period of validity of a wildlife dealer's licence, the species of fauna, which may be purchased and resold by licensed wildlife dealers, the records to be kept by such dealers and such other matters ancillary to the foregoing. A wildlife dealer's license shall be in the form set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations. A licensed wildlife dealer shall not sell protected fauna in a public place. Regulation 8 lays down conditions for keeping of live specimen of protected fauna for sale. The premises used by a licensed wildlife dealer described in Regulation 6 (1) (a) and (b) of these Regulations shall conform in all respects to regulation 25 of the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950, as amended by Regulations in 1971.