Explanatory note

Section 7 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the Act”), together with regulations made under that section, provide for the registration and ringing of captive birds included in Schedule 4 to the Act.

Article 2 of this Order removes the birds listed in that Article from Schedule 4 to the Act and Article 3 adds to that Schedule hybrids of birds specified in that Schedule.

From the coming into force of this Order the birds included in Schedule 4 to the Act will be—

Any bird one of whose parents or other lineal ancestor was a bird of a kind specified in the above list.