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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-amendment-order-2012/schedule",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-amendment-order-2012",
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  "text": "“PART 1\nTypes of animals specified for the purposes of section 14(1)(a)(ii) of the 1981 Act (types of animal which it is an offence for a person to release or allow to escape from captivity)\nCommon name\nColumn (1)\nScientific name\nColumn (2)\nExtent\nColumn (3)\nDeer\nAll species of the genus Cervus\nOuter Hebrides and the islands of Arran (including Holy Island), Islay, Jura and Rum\nPART 2\nTypes of invasive animals specified for the purposes of section 14ZC(1)(a) of the 1981 Act (types of animal which it is an offence for a person to keep, have in their possession or have under their control)\nCommon name\nColumn (1)\nScientific name\nColumn (2)\nAsp\nAspius aspius\nBarbel\nspecies of the genus Barbus (excluding Barbus barbus)\nBass (excluding sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax)\nMicropterus salmoides; Micropterus dolomieu; Ambloplites rupestris; and species of the genus Morone\nBighead carp\nHypophthalmichthys nobilis\nBitterling\nRhodeus sericeus/Rhodeus amarus\nBlacknose dace\nRhinichthys atratulus\nBlageon\nTelestes souffia\nBlue bream\nBallerus ballerus\nBlue sucker\nCycleptus elongatus\nBurbot\nLota lota\nCatfish\nspecies of the genera Ictalurus, Ameiurus and Silurus\nCharr\nspecies of the genus Salvelinus (excluding Salvelinus alpinus)\nChinese black or snail-eating carp\nMylopharyngodon piceus\nChinese sucker (also known as Zebra hi fin, banded shark/sucker)\nMyxocyprinus asiaticus\nCommon white sucker\nCatostomus commersonii\nCoypu\nMyocastor coypus\nCrayfish\nfreshwater decapod crustacean of the Families Astacidae, Cambaridae or Parastacidae, (excluding Austropotamobius pallipes)\nDanubian bleak\nAlburnus chalcoides\nDanubian salmon & Taimen\nspecies of the genus Hucho\nEastern mudminnow\nUmbra pygmaea\nEuropean mudminnow\nUmbra krameri\nFathead minnow (or Roseyreds)\nPimephales promelas\nFreshwater minnow, Dragon fish or Pale chub\nZacco platypus\nGrass carp\nCtenopharyngodon idella\nGrey squirrel\nSciurus carolinensis\nLandlocked salmon\nnon anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar\nMarbled trout\nSalmo marmoratus\nMink\nMustela vison\nMuntjac\nSpecies of genus Muntiacus\nMuskrat\nOndatra zibethica\nNase\nChondrostoma nasus\nNorthern redbelly dace\nChrosomus eos\nPacific salmon and trout\nspecies of the genus Oncorhynchus (excluding Oncorhynchus mykiss\nPaddlefish\nspecies of the genera Polyodon and Psephurus\nPerch\nspecies of the genus Perca (excluding Perca fluviatilis)\nPike\nspecies of the genus Esox (excluding Esox lucius)\nPikeperch\nSanderlucioperca\nRabbit (excluding European rabbit)\nspecies of the genera Bunolagus, Brachylagus, Nesolagus, Pentalagus, Poelagus, Romerolagus and Sylvilagus\nRed shiner\nCyprinella lutrensis\nRuffe\nGymnocephalus cernua\nSchneider\nAlburnoides bipunctatus\nSilver carp\nHypophthalmichthys molitrix\nSnakehead\nspecies of the genus Channa\nSouthern redbelly dace\nChrosomus erythrogaster\nSturgeon or sterlet\nspecies of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus\nSunbleak (Sundace), also known as Belica or Motherless minnow\nLeucaspius delineatus\nSunfish, including pumpkinseed (also Basses, Crappies & Bluegills)\nspecies of the genus Lepomis\nTopmouth gudgeon\nPseudorasbora parva\nToxostome (or French nase)\nParachondrostoma toxostoma\nVimba\nVimba vimba\nWeatherfish\nMisgurnus fossilis\nWhitefish\nspecies of the genus Coregonus (excluding Coregonus lavaretus and Coregonus albula)\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/206/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:30.863183+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."
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