{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-birds-act-1954/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-birds-act-1954/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/30",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Birds Act 1954",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-birds-act-1954",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Protection of Birds Act, 1954.\n(2) This Act shall apply to the Isles of Scilly as if the Isles were a county and as if the council of the Isles were a county council.\n(3) The following provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections one to six, eight and eleven, and subsections (2), (4) and (5) of section thirteen, shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(4) This Act shall come into force on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-four.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/30/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:10.609790+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."
}