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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/8",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-natural-habitats-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "text": "In regulation 34 (protection of wild animals)—\n(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) It is an offence—\n(a) deliberately to capture, injure or kill a wild animal of a European protected species;\n(b) deliberately to disturb such an animal while it is occupying a structure or place which it uses for shelter or protection;\n(c) deliberately to disturb such an animal in such a way as to be likely to—\n(i) affect the local distribution or abundance of the species to which it belongs;\n(ii) impair its ability to survive, breed or reproduce, or rear or care for its young; or\n(iii) impair its ability to hibernate or migrate;\n(d) deliberately to take or destroy the eggs of such an animal;\n(e) deliberately to obstruct access to a breeding site or resting place of such an animal; or\n(f) to damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of such an animal.”; and\n(b) omit paragraphs (8), (9) and (10).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/8/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:33:35.768288+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}