{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-england-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-england-order-2008/article-2.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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Variation of Schedule 5",
  "text": "In Schedule 5 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (animals which are protected)—\n(a) insert the entries listed in the Schedule;\n(b) in the entry relating to “Vole, Water”, before “in respect of section 9(4) only”, insert “in so far as this entry has effect with respect to Wales,”; and\n(c) at the end of the Schedule, insert the following note—\n“NOTE 2. In this Schedule “excluded waters” means the part of the territorial waters adjacent to England which is more than 6 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of those waters are measured; and for these purposes “nautical miles” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 5 has been varied (in relation to England and Wales) by S.I. 1988/288, 1989/906, 1991/367, 1992/2350, 1998/878 and 2007/1843."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/431/article/2",
    "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."
}