{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-8.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/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Article 7 (sale of wild birds, eggs, etc.) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (5)(a) for “for which a special penalty is provided” substitute “ to which paragraph (5A) applies ”.\n(3) After paragraph (5) insert—\n“(5A) The offences falling within this paragraph are —\n(a) any offence under Article 4(1), (2) or (6) in respect of—\n(i) a bird included in Schedule A1 or 1 or any part of, or anything derived from, such a bird,\n(ii) the nest of such a bird, or\n(iii) an egg of such a bird or any part of such an egg;\n(b) any offence under Article 6(1);\n(c) any offence under Article 7 in respect of—\n(i) a bird included in Schedule A1 or 1 or any part of, or anything derived from, such a bird, or\n(ii) an egg of such a bird or any part of such an egg;\n(d) any offence under Article 9.”.",
  "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/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}