{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012/schedule-1/part-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-keeping-and-release-and-notification-requirements-scotland-order-2012/schedule-1/part-2A.json",
  "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": "schedule/1/part/2A",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Types of invasive plants specified for the purposes of section 14ZC(1)(b) of the 1981 Act (types of plant which it is an offence for a person to keep, have in their possession or have under their control)",
  "text": "Common name\nScientific name\nColumn (1)\nColumn (2)\nAmerican skunk-cabbage\nLysichiton americanus\nCurly waterweed\nLagarosiphon major\nFloating pennywort\nHydrocotyle ranunculoides\nFloating primrose-willow\nLudwigia peploides\nGiant hogweed\nHeracleum mantegazzianum\nGiant-rhubarb\nGunnera tinctoria\nIndian balsam\nImpatiens glandulifera\nJapanese stiltgrass\nMicrostegium vimineum\nNuttall’s waterweed\nElodea nuttallii\nParrot’s feather\nMyriophyllum aquaticum\nPersian hogweed\nHeracleum persicum\nSosnowsky’s hogweed\nHeracleum sosnowskyi\nVarious-leaved water-milfoil\nMyriophyllum heterophyllum\nWater primrose\nLudwigia grandiflora",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2A inserted (1.4.2019) by The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/37), art. 1(1), sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/174/schedule/1/part/2A",
    "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."
}