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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1487",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-countryside-act-1981england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "text": "After section 27 insert the following section—\n“Application of Part 1 to England and Wales\n27ZA. (1) The amendments made to this Part of the Act by the 2004 Regulations have effect in relation to England only, and accordingly, in the application of this Act in relation to Wales, this Part continues to have effect without the amendments made by the 2004 Regulations.\nThis subsection is subject to any regulations which may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by the National Assembly for Wales.\n(2) In this section “the 2004 Regulations” means the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2004.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1487/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:24:16.753182+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."
}