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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-licence-charges-england-order-2025/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/236",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife Licence Charges (England) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-licence-charges-england-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Licence Charges",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nColumn 4\nLicence description\nApplication\nFixed charges\nVariable charge\nClass licences issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16 of the 1981 Act\nClass licence issued under regulation 55(1) and (2)(e) of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(3)(f) of the 1981 Act in respect of—\n- interference with bat roosts; or\nAccreditation of consultant\n£1960\nRe-accreditation\n£410\nUpgrade accreditation\n£670\n- interference with bat roosts; or\nNotification of site of licensed activities - simple application\n£135\nNotification of site of licensed activities - complex application\n£410\n- activities that adversely impact great crested newts Triturus cristatus\nNotification of site of licensed activities\n£210\nClass licence issued under regulation 55(1) and (2) of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16 of the 1981 Act in respect of displacement of water voles Arvicola amphibus\nInitial registration\n£104\nRenewal of registration\n£35\nClass licence issued under regulation 55(1) and (2)(a) and (b) of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(3) of the 1981 Act in respect of the survey of—\nInitial registration\n£104\nRenewal of registration\n£35\n- great crested newts Triturus cristatus;\n- hazel dormice Muscardinus avellanarius; or\n- Atlantic stream crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes\nClass licence issued for the purposes of section 16(3)(a) and (b) of the 1981 Act and/or regulation 55(1) and (2)(a) and (b) of the 2017 Regulations in respect of the survey of bats\nInitial registration\n£104\nRenewal of registration\n£35\nClass licence issued for the purposes of section 16(1)(a) and (c) of the 1981 Act in respect of the survey of barn owls Tyto alba\nInitial registration\n£104\nRenewal of registration\n£35\nClass licence issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(4)(b) of the 1981 Act in respect of the sale or offering for sale of dead specimens and/or derivatives of species specified in Schedule 2 to the 2017 Regulations or in Schedule 5 to the 1981 Act and lawfully taken from the wild before 30th October 1981\nApplication for registration\n£196\nIndividual licences issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16 of the 1981 Act\nIndividual licence issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(3) of the 1981 Act in respect of activities that adversely impact—\n- great crested newts Triturus cristatus;\nSimple application\n£690\nComplex application\n£219\nVariable charge\n- bats; or\nSimple application\n£500\nComplex application\n£219\nVariable charge\n- hazel dormice Muscardinus avellanarius;\nSimple application\n£780\nComplex application\n£219\nVariable charge\n- any other species\nSimple application\n£780\nComplex application\n£219\nVariable charge\nIndividual licence issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(3) of the 1981 Act to kill, take, disturb or possess wild animals for specified purposes\nSimple application\n£73\nVariable charge\nComplex application\n£700\nIndividual licence issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 regulations and/or section 16(3) of the 1981 Act to disturb or take bats\n£73\nVariable charge\nIndividual licence issued under section 16(4)(b) of the 1981 Act permitting activity prohibited by section 13(2) of that Act\nVariable charge\nIndividual licence issued under regulation 55(1) and (2)(c) of the 2017 Regulations and/or section 16(3)(c) of the 1981 Act in respect of the taking of wild plants\nVariable charge\nIndividual licence issued under section 16(1)(e) (falconry or aviculture) of the 1981 Act\nVariable charge\nIndividual licence issued under section 16(1)(h) (photography) of the 1981 Act\nVariable charge\nAny individual or class licence other than any referred to above issued under regulation 55 of the 2017 Regulations\nVariable charge\nLicences issued under section 10 of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992\nClass licence issued under 10(1)(d) of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 (interference with a badger sett for the purposes of development)\nNotification of site of licensed activities\n£135\nIndividual licence issued under section 10(1)(d) of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 (interference with a badger sett for the purposes of development)\nComplex application\n£73\nVariable charge\nLicence modification\nAny licence of a type described in the table above\nModification\nVariable charge",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In addition to statutory powers to issue licences in its own right, Natural England exercises functions under an agreement with the Secretary of State pursuant to section 78 of the 2006 Act (which enables the Secretary of State to enter into agreements with designated bodies authorising such bodies to perform DEFRA functions). Natural England is a designated body listed in Schedule 7 to that Act. Under the agreement, with effect from 1st October 2006, Natural England performs specified functions of the Secretary of State, including, inter alia, the Secretary of State’s licensing functions in relation to England under specified provisions of section 16 of the 1981 Act and section 10 of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Natural England is the “relevant licensing body” for specified purposes under regulation 55, pursuant to regulation 58 of the 2017 Regulations. Regulation 55 has been amended by S.I. 2022/518 and S.I. 2019/579."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 16 was amended by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) , paragraph 11 of Schedule 9; the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) , paragraph 6 of Schedule 12; the 2006 Act, paragraph 72 of Schedule 11; and S.I. 1995/2825 and 2007/1843; there are other amendments not relevant to this Order. See section 16((9) for the meaning of “the appropriate authority”. Natural England is the relevant conservation body for the purposes of section 16 in relation to England – see section 27(3A)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "This currently includes the following licences issued by Natural England – A12-1 (European Protected Species), A35-1 (hazel dormice), A44-1 (natterjack toads), A45 (otters), A46-1 (smooth snakes), in addition to A14 (great crested newts), and A 13a-1 and A 13a-2 (bats)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1992 c. 51. Section 10 was amended by the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 11), paragraph 53 of Schedule 2; the 2006 Act, paragraph 137 of Schedule 11(1), the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), section 33(6); S.I. 2002/794 and 2013/755. Under section 10(4), the appropriate conservation body means, in relation to a licence in an area in England, Natural England."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/236/schedule",
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  "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."
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