{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedules-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981-variation-of-schedules-order-1988/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which applies throughout Great Britain, varies Schedules 5 and 8 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which list animals and plants protected under that Act.\nArticle 2 adds a number of animals generally to Schedule 5, confers limited protection on one animal, extends the protection already afforded to three animals, and removes two animals from protection.\nArticle 3 adds thirty-one plants to Schedule 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/288/note",
    "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."
}