Explanatory note

England, Wales and Scotland

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prohibits the keeping of coypus within Great Britain. The Order replaces the Coypus (Keeping) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/1744) which prohibits the keeping of coypus within Great Britain except under licence and which ceases to have effect on 1st January 1988.

In consequence of the making of this Order the provisions of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932 will continue to apply to coypus. Those provisions include—

(a)

a requirement that occupiers of land who know that coypus, not being coypus kept under a licence, are to be found there shall give notice of the fact to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the case of land in England, or to the Secretary of State for Scotland in the case of land in Scotland or to the Secretary of State for Wales in the case of land in Wales (section 5(2)); and

(b)

a saving where a special licence is granted in respect of coypus kept for exhibition, scientific research or other exceptional purposes (section 8).

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: Order revoked (S.) (2.7.2012) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/174), art. 1(1), sch. 2