{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/7",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Native and non-native species etc",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (animals and plants to which section 14 of that Act applies) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading to Part I, at the beginning insert “ NON-NATIVE ”.\n(3) In Part I, omit the entries relating to the wild boar, capercaillie, chough, corncrake, common crane, white-tailed eagle, goshawk, red kite and barn owl.\n(4) After Part I insert—\nPART IA NATIVE ANIMALS\nNOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.\nCommon nameScientific name\nCapercaillieTetrao urogallus\nChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax\nCorncrakeCrex crex\nCrane, CommonGrus grus\nEagle, White-tailedHaliaetus albicilla\nGoshawkAccipiter gentilis\nKite, RedMilvus milvus\nOwl, BarnTyto alba.\n(5) After Part IA (as inserted by subsection (4) above) insert—\nPART IB ANIMALS NO LONGER NORMALLY PRESENT\nNOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.\nCommon nameScientific name\nBeaver, Eurasian (but not in relation to Wales)Castor fiber\nBoar, WildSus Scrofa.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 5.3.2015 for E. by S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 12.4.2015 for W. by S.I. 2015/990, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/7/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:01:33.299568+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}