{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Protection of certain wild animals from disturbance",
  "text": "In Article 10 of the Wildlife Order (protection of certain wild animals) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Subject to the provisions of this Part, if any person intentionally or recklessly disturbs any wild animal included in Schedule 5 as—\n(a) a common seal (phoca vitulina),\n(b) a grey seal (halichoerus grypus), or\n(c) a basking shark (cetorhinus maximus),\nhe shall be guilty of an offence.”.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}