Explanatory note

This order provides for section 12 of and Schedule 7 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, together with certain of the repeals in Part II of Schedule 17 to that Act, to come into force on 16th February 1982. These provisions amend the law relating to the protection of certain mammals.

The order also provides for section 48 of the 1981 Act, which relates to the duties of water authorities and inland drainage boards in England and Wales, to come into force on the same date.