{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-special-protection-for-irish-hares-order-northern-ireland-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2004/523",
  "legislation_title": "Game Preservation (Special Protection for Irish Hares) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-special-protection-for-irish-hares-order-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GAME\nMade 22nd December 2004\nComing into operation 19th January 2005\nWhereas the Department of the Environment is satisfied that it is necessary to provide special protection for Irish Hares;\nAnd whereas the Department of the Environment has caused a notice of the proposal to make an order to be published in accordance with section 7F(5) of the Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928 and taken into consideration the objections duly lodged in accordance with that notice;\nNow, therefore, the Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 7C(1) and 7F(1) and (2) of the Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby 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.) as amended by s. 3 of 1951 c. 4 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/523/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:52.947076+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."
}