{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-england-order-2008/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-england-order-2008/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/431",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (England) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-england-order-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (England) Order 2008.\n(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th April 2008.\n(3) This Order extends to England and Wales only.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 27(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c.69), “England” includes the territorial waters adjacent to England. The amendments made by this Order relate substantively only to England, as so defined. The powers of the Secretary of State under section 22(3) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) and, in relation to Wales, are devolved to the Welsh Ministers; see the reference to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), and paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/431/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:36:15.008636+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."
}