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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012/article-4",
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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",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notification requirements in relation to the presence of invasive animals",
  "text": "Where an occupier of land is, or becomes, aware of the presence of an invasive animal of a type listed in Part 3 of Schedule 1, that person must notify Scottish Natural Heritage without delay.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 2.7.2012, see art. 1(1)"
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  "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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