{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-9A/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981/schedule-9A/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/69",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/9A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This Schedule provides for—\n(a) species control agreements between environmental authorities and owners of premises, and\n(b) species control orders made by environmental authorities,\nand for related matters.\n(2) A species control agreement or species control order may relate to—\n(a) a species of animal or plant included on the list of species of special concern,\n(b) an invasive non-native species of animal or plant not falling within sub-paragraph (a), or\n(c) a species of animal that is no longer normally present in Great Britain.\nThis is subject to the other provisions of this Schedule.\n(3) The following definitions apply for the purposes of this Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9A inserted (E.W.) (12.4.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), ss. 23(3), 57(4); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 3(a); S.I. 2015/990, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 9A para. 1(2)(a)-(c) substituted for Sch. 9A para. 1(2)(a)(b) (1.12.2019) by The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/527), art. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 1(4)(a) (with art. 1(2)(4)) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1213, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9A para. 1(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Breeders’ Rights and Seeds (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1220), regs. 1(2)(c), 6(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/69/schedule/9A/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}