{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-12",
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  "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": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Protection of wild plants",
  "text": "(1) The Wildlife Order is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 14(1)(a) (protection of wild plants) after “Schedule 8” insert “ or any seed or spore attached to any such wild plant ”.\n(3) In Article 2(2) (general interpretation), in the definition of “wild plant”, after “any plant” insert “ (including fungi) ”.\n(4) In Article 3 (interpretation of Part 2) at the end add—\n“(3) Any reference in this Part to a plant which is growing—\n(a) includes a reference to a bulb, corm or rhizome;\n(b) does not include a reference to a seed or spore.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/15/section/12",
    "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."
}