{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006/schedule-11/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/16",
  "legislation_title": "Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/natural-environment-and-rural-communities-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend section 5 (provisions as to musk rats found at large) as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3) for “any persons employed by, or on behalf of, the department for that purpose” substitute “ any authorised persons ”.\n(3) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) “Authorised person” means—\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, a person authorised in writing by the appropriate department to exercise powers under subsection (3);\n(b) in relation to Scotland, a person employed by or on behalf of the appropriate department for the purposes of subsection (3).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 para. 1 in force at 1.10.2006 by S.I. 2006/2541, art. 2 (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/schedule/11/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:48.014805+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."
}