55.—Section 51 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the insertion, in subsection (1), of the following after paragraph (c):

“(cc) any species of flora to which an order under section 21 of this Act for the time being applies.”,

(b) by the substitution, in subsection (2), of the following for paragraph (a):

“(a) that the package, parcel, box or other container contains wild birds, wild animals or flora, as may be appropriate,

(aa) the number of specimens and the species, respectively, of wild birds, wild animals or flora so contained and, in respect of each specimen captured, picked or otherwise taken (as appropriate) within the State or the territorial seas of the State, the location of where it was so captured, picked or otherwise taken, and”,

(c) by the substitution, in subsection (3), of “(a), (b), (c) or (cc)” for “(a), (b) or (c)”,

(d) by the addition of the following after subsection (4):

“(5) The Minister may by regulations provide that this section—

(a) shall also apply to any package, parcel, box or other container which contains all or any of the following, that is to say:

(i) a wild bird of a species specified in the regulations for that purpose;

(ii) a wild animal of a species specified in the regulations for that purpose;

(iii) a species of flora specified in the regulations for that purpose;

and which for the time being is not a species to which subsections (1) to (4) of this section apply,

(b) shall not apply to any package, parcel, box or other container which contains all or any of the following, that is to say:

(i) a wild bird of a species specified in the regulations for that purpose;

(ii) a wild animal of a species specified in the regulations for that purpose;

(iii) a species of flora specified in the regulations for that purpose;

and which would, but for the regulations, be a species to which subsections (1) to (4) of this section would apply,”,

and the said subsection (3), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

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(3) Any person who consigns or transports a package, parcel, box or other container which is not marked in the manner required by subsection (2) of this section and who knows that the package, parcel, box or other container, as the case may be, contains any thing mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (cc) of subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.