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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition on releasing certain animals",
  "text": "The types of animals listed in column (1) (whose Scientific name is listed in column (2)) of the table in Part 1 of Schedule 1 are specified for the purposes of section 14(1)(a)(ii) of the 1981 Act, to the extent mentioned in column (3) of that table.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 2 substituted (2.7.2012) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/206), arts. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 2.7.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/174/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:43:54.832674+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."
}