{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coypus-prohibition-on-keeping-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coypus-prohibition-on-keeping-order-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2195",
  "legislation_title": "The Coypus (Prohibition on Keeping) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coypus-prohibition-on-keeping-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis 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.\nIn 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—\n(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\n(b) a saving where a special licence is granted in respect of coypus kept for exhibition, scientific research or other exceptional purposes (section 8).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2195/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:14:34.518831+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."
}