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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-scotland-act-2011/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-scotland-act-2011/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2011/6",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-and-natural-environment-scotland-act-2011",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Wild hares, rabbits etc.: power to vary Schedules to the 1981 Act and prescribe close seasons",
  "text": "In section 22 of the 1981 Act (power to vary schedules and prescribe close seasons)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(b), for “or 6” substitute “ , 5A, 6 or 6A ”,\n(b) after subsection (2), insert—\n“(2ZA) An order under subsection (1) adding any animal to Schedule 5A may prescribe a close season in the case of that animal for the purposes of section 10A.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 10 in force at 29.6.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/279, art. 2(1)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/6/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:10.586863+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."
}