{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1985/171",
  "legislation_title": "The Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-northern-ireland-order-1985",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Summary prosecutions",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Proceedings for a summary offence under this Order may be brought within a period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge; but no such proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this Article more than two years after the commission of the offence.\n(3) For the purposes of this Article a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which such evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact; and a certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 26(1) repealed (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), ss. 23(2), 39(2), 40(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with s. 23(4)); S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 26(2) substituted (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), ss. 23(3), 40(1) (with s. 23(4)); S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1985/171/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:57.714070+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."
}