This Order specifies the types of animal and the types of plant to which the offence provisions in section 14(1)(a)(i) and 14(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as substituted by section 14(2)(a) of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011) do not apply. Section 14(1)(a)(i) of the 1981 Act makes it an offence for any person to release, or allow to escape from captivity, any animal to a place outside its native range. Section 14(2) of the 1981 Act makes it an offence for any person to plant, or otherwise cause to grow, any plant in the wild at a place outside its native range.
This Order specifies the types of animal and the types of plant to which the offence provisions in section 14(1)(a)(i) and 14(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as substituted by section 14(2)(a) of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011) do not apply. Section 14(1)(a)(i) of the 1981 Act makes it an offence for any person to release, or allow to escape from captivity, any animal to a place outside its native range. Section 14(2) of the 1981 Act makes it an offence for
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Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Exceptions to section 14) (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. No. 173 of 2012).
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type of document:
Regulation
Date of text:
2012
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