These Regulations make provision about the registration and ringing or marking requirements applicable to birds included in Schedule 4 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the Act”). The Regulations revoke the Wildlife and Countryside (Registration and Ringing of Certain Captive Birds) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1221) and amending instruments. The Regulations apply only in relation to birds kept in England or registered in accordance with these Regulations as a consequence of having been kept in England, and certain birds (merlin and peregrine falcon) entered on the register of birds in respect of which a CITES certificate has been issued (and consequently treated as registered by virtue of regulation 7(1)). (For “CITES”, see below).