The Constitutional Court is tomorrow expected to announce its decision on whether a spring hunting referendum will be held this year.

If the court approves the referendum, the President will then set a date no sooner than three months and no later than six from the decision, that is between April and July.

The referendum aims to cancel a three-year-old legal notice setting out the rules under which the government can apply a derogation to open a spring hunting season for turtle dove and quail.

If it goes ahead and a majority vote for cancellation of the legal notice, the referendum will be the first in 150 years to have been prompted by electors and the only one to cancel a law.

Read more on Times of Malta.

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