{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-birds-preservation-order-northern-ireland-2000/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-birds-preservation-order-northern-ireland-2000/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/216",
  "legislation_title": "Game Birds Preservation Order (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-birds-preservation-order-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GAME\nMade 19th June 2000\nComing into operation 11th August 2000\nThe Minister of the Environment, being satisfied that it is necessary to provide special protection for grouse, partridge, red-legged partridges and hen pheasants:\n(a) in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 7C(1) and 7F(1) to (3) of the Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and paragraph 10(1) of Schedule 12 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and of every other power enabling him in that behalf; and\n(b) after publishing, pursuant to section 7F(5) of the Act, notice of proposal to make this Order and of the purport thereof, and not having received any objection to the said proposal,\nhereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No. 252: S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Art. 7; S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6) Art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1928 c. 25 (N.I.): see s. 3 of 1951 c. 4 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1998 c. 47"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/216/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:15:07.815155+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."
}