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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-wales-order-2008/article-1",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1927",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (Wales) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-5-wales-order-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement, extent and application",
  "text": "(1) The title of this Order is the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (Wales) Order 2008.\n(2) This Order comes into force on 12 August 2008.\n(3) This Order extends to Wales and England.\n(4) This Order applies to Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "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), “Wales” includes the territorial waters adjacent to Wales."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1927/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:57:46.985602+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."
}