{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/15",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 5 (animals which are protected at all times) is amended as follows.\n(2) At the appropriate places in alphabetical order insert the following entries—\nCommon name\nScientific name\nButterfly, Real's Wood White\nLeptidea reali\nCrayfish, White-Clawed\nAustropotamobius pallipes\nDamselfly, Irish\nCoenagrion lunulatum\nLobster, Spiny\nPalinurus elaphus\nMussel, Fan\nAtrina fragilis\nSeahorse, Short Snouted\nHippocampus hippocampus\nSeahorse, Spiny\nHippocampus guttulatus\nSkate, Common (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)\nDipturus batis\nShark, Angel (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)\nSquatina squatina\nShark, Basking\nCetorhinus maximus\n(3) After the Note at the end of the Schedule insert— “ Note 2. In this Schedule “coastal waters” means the part of the territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland which is not more than 6 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of those waters is measured; and “nautical mile” means an international nautical mile of 1,872 metres. ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/15/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:49.628005+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."
}