# Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, Paragraph 5


(1) Schedule 5 (animals which are protected at all times) is amended as follows.
(2) At the appropriate places in alphabetical order insert the following entries—
Common name
Scientific name
Butterfly, Real's Wood White
Leptidea reali
Crayfish, White-Clawed
Austropotamobius pallipes
Damselfly, Irish
Coenagrion lunulatum
Lobster, Spiny
Palinurus elaphus
Mussel, Fan
Atrina fragilis
Seahorse, Short Snouted
Hippocampus hippocampus
Seahorse, Spiny
Hippocampus guttulatus
Skate, Common (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)
Dipturus batis
Shark, Angel (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)
Squatina squatina
Shark, Basking
Cetorhinus maximus
(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. ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/15/schedule/1/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-5
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