{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-9-order-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-9-order-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1002",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 9) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedule-9-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order adds hybrids of Sika Deer to Part I of Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which lists animals which may not be released or allowed to escape into the wild in Great Britain. Sika Deer are already included in Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the 1981 Act.\nThe Order also adds all species of Cervus Deer (which includes Red Deer) and hybrids of Cervus Deer to Part I of Schedule 9 as respects the outer Hebrides and the islands of Arran, Islay, Jura and Rum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1002/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:14.524484+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."
}