S.I. No. 110/1989:

NATURE RESERVE (DERRYMORE ISLAND) RECOGNITION ORDER, 1989.

NATURE RESERVE (DERRYMORE ISLAND) RECOGNITION ORDER, 1989.

I, NOEL TREACY, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture and Food, the Minister for the Marine, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland and the council of the county of Kerry, being satisfied by the person who is the occupier of the land specified in Article 2 of the following Order, that the land so specified includes and ecosystem described in paragraph (a) of section 15 (2) of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), and that the interest of the said person in or over the said land is such as to enable the person to establish and manage a nature reserve on the said land, and that the person can, in accordance with any conditions which I, Noel Treacy, Minister of State at the Department of Finance, or the Minister for Finance, see fit to impose, use or manage the said land so as to establish and maintain, or maintain as may be appropriate, a nature reserve on the said land hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 16 of the said Act, the Wildlife (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 156 of 1987 ), and the Finance (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order, 1988 ( S.I. No. 352 of 1988 ), order as follows.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Nature Reserve (Derrymore Island) Recognition Order, 1989.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1989.

2. (1) The land specified in paragraph (2) of this Article is hereby recognised as a nature reserve.

(2) The land referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article is the area of land known as Derrymore Island in the county of Kerry enclosed on the map annexed hereto within the inner margin of the black line and hatched thereon in black.

DERRYMORE ISLAND NATURE RESERVE

CO. KERRY O.S. 28 & 37

Area 106.07 Hectares Approx.

Scale: 6 inches to 1 Mile.

SCHEDULE

Map Referred to in Article 2.

Derrymore Island Nature Reserve

GIVEN under my hand, this 16th day of May, 1989.

NOEL TREACY,

Minister of State at the Department

of Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Order recognises the land at Derrymore Island, County Kerry as a nature reserve so that it can be managed in such a way as to ensure the conservation of the sand dune/marsh ecosystem which it constitutes.