# The Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (Authorised Operations) Order 2016, Paragraph 20


Use of vehicles, including aircraft or any ship, boat or other water-going vessel.
In this Schedule—
(a) “animal” includes any mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird, fish or invertebrate, and a reference to an animal includes a reference to any egg, larva, pupa or other immature stage of an animal;
(b) “plant” includes any flowering plant, fern, alga, fungus, lichen or moss, and a reference to a plant includes a reference to bulbs, corms, seeds and spores of the plant; and
(c) “woodland management” includes afforestation, planting, clear and selective felling, thinning, coppicing, modification of the stand or underwood and changes in species composition.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/38/schedule/paragraph/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nature-conservation-scotland-act-2004-authorised-operations-order-2016/schedule/paragraph-20
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