{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-2/part-IA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-2/part-IA.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/69",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/IA",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "IA",
  "heading": "Exception: birds included in Part I which may not be killed or taken on Sundays or Christmas Day",
  "text": "Common name\nScientific name\nCoot\nFulica atra\nDuck, Tufted\nAythya fuligula\nGadwall\nAnas strepera\nGoldeneye\nBucephala clangula\nGoose, Canada\nBranta canadensis\nGoose, Greylag\nAnser anser\nGoose, Pink-footed\nAnser brachyrhynchus\nMallard\nAnas platyrhynchos\nMoorhen\nGallinula chloropus\nPintail\nAnas acuta\nPlover, Golden\nPluvialis apricaria\nPochard\nAythya ferina\nShoveler\nAnas clypeata\nSnipe, Common\nGallinago gallinago\nTeal\nAnas crecca\nWigeon\nAnas penelope\nWoodcock\nScolopax rusticola",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. IA inserted (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) , ss. 3(8) , 43(1) (with s. 41(1) ); S.S.I. 2011/279 , art. 2(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/schedule/2/part/IA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:49.503545+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."
}