New Deer Hunting Licence Online Portal for the 2024/25 Open Season!
The National Parks & Wildlife Service are launching a new online portal for deer hunting licence applications for the 2024/25 Open Season, this will replace paper and email applications.
The Irish Deer Commission will engage in a stakeholder testing process of the new portal, and hold online demonstrations for its members.
The new eLicencing system will bring a range of benefits including:
* Fully online, fast, efficient licencing process with no need to fill out and post documents
* Each hunter will have their own login and password
* Applicants will be able to track the status of their application through the portal
* Once approved, applicants will receive their licence instantly and will be able to view their licence(s) online and print them, if they so wish
* The requirement of the minimum of 100 acres landowner permission has been removed
* Applicants will no longer have to provide written landowner permission
* Hunting returns can be completed online throughout the year
* Commercial shoot operators will be able to see the status of applications from their clients
How will the Application Process change?
* The application process for deer hunting licences will be online only
* Within the portal applicants will be required to:
* include a photograph with their application to ensure the individual issued the licence can be identified
* sign a declaration verifying that they will only hunt on land where they have permission, as set out in Section 28 of the Wildlife Act.
* upload a firearm certificate and/or proof of firearm purchase
* sign a declaration that they are compliant with the minimum firearm requirements when hunting deer, as set out in Statutory Instrument No. 239/1977 (Wildlife Act, 1976 (Firearms and Ammunition) Regulations, 1977
* Deer hunting licences will issue via email / through the portal only, they will not be posted
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