{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedules-order-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedules-order-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedules) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedules-order-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Variation of Schedule 5",
  "text": "(1) The following animals are hereby added to Schedule 5 to the Act:\nCommon Name\nScientific Name\nAnemone, Ivell’s Sea\nEdwardsia ivelli\nAnemone, Startlet Sea\nNematosella vectensis\nApus\nTriops cancriformis\nBeetle, Violet Click\nLimoniscus violaceus\nCat, Wild\nFelis silvestris\nCicada, New Forest\nCicadetta montana\nDormouse\nMuscardinus avellanarius\nLeech, Medicinal\nHirudo medicinalis\nMarten, Pine\nMartes martes\nMat, Trembling Sea\nVictorella pavida\nMoth, Viper’s Bugloss\nHadena irregularis\nSandworm, Lagoon\nArmandia cirrhosa\nShrimp, Fairy\nChirocephalus diaphanus\nShrimp, Lagoon Sand\nGammarus insensibilis\nTurtles, Marine (all species)\nDermochelyidae and Cheloniidae\nVendace\nCoregonus albula\nWalrus\nOdobenus rosmarus\nWhale (all species)\nCetacea\nWhitefish\nCoregonus lavaretus\n(2) All Dolphins (Cetacea) and all Porpoises (Cetacea) not already listed in Schedule 5 to the Act are hereby added to that Schedule.\n(3) The Atlantic Stream Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is hereby added to Schedule 5 to the Act, but only in respect of section 9(1) so far as it relates to taking and in respect of section 9(5).\n(4) The Viviparous Lizard (Lacerta vivipara), the Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) and the Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica otherwise known as Natrix natrix) (which are already listed in Schedule 5 to the Act in respect of section 9(5) only) are hereby further listed in respect of section 9(1) so far as it relates to killing and injuring.\n(5) The Carthusian Snail (Monacha cartusiana) and the Chequered Skipper butterfly (Carterocephalus palaemon) are hereby removed from Schedule 5 to the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/288/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:21.206388+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."
}