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The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2012 No. 206 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
21 June 2012
In force from
2 July 2012
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife
Made under
In accordance with section 26(4A) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, No. 206 Wildlife The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, S.S.I.2012/174, Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order amends the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012 (“the 2012 Order”) which makes provision about the release of certain animals, the keeping of invasive animals and notification requirements in relation to the presence of invasive animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) as amended by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011. Article 2(2) of this Order amends articles 2 and 3 of the 2012 Order so as to refer to “Scientific name” instead of “Latin name”. Article 2(3) of, and the Schedule to, this Order substitutes new Parts 1 and 2 into Schedule 1 to the 2012 Order. The newly substituted Part 1 amends the entry in relation to Deer so as to correctly refer to the island of Arran. In the newly substituted Part 2, a number of the entries in the table have been amended so as to correctly refer to the current nomenclature for these species. The headings in column (2) of the table in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule1 have also been amended to refer to “Scientific name” instead of “Latin name”.

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