
1 
This Order may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedules) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 18th March 1988.
2 

(1) The following animals are hereby added to Schedule 5 to the Act:

Common Name Scientific Name
Anemone, Ivell’s Sea Edwardsia ivelli
Anemone, Startlet Sea Nematosella vectensis
Apus Triops cancriformis
Beetle, Violet Click Limoniscus violaceus
Cat, Wild Felis silvestris
Cicada, New Forest Cicadetta montana
Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius
Leech, Medicinal Hirudo medicinalis
Marten, Pine Martes martes
Mat, Trembling Sea Victorella pavida
Moth, Viper’s Bugloss Hadena irregularis
Sandworm, Lagoon Armandia cirrhosa
Shrimp, Fairy Chirocephalus diaphanus
Shrimp, Lagoon Sand Gammarus insensibilis
Turtles, Marine (all species) Dermochelyidae and Cheloniidae
Vendace Coregonus albula
Walrus Odobenus rosmarus
Whale (all species) Cetacea
Whitefish Coregonus lavaretus
(2) All Dolphins (Cetacea) and all Porpoises (Cetacea) not already listed in Schedule 5 to the Act are hereby added to that Schedule.
(3) The Atlantic Stream Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is hereby added to Schedule 5 to the Act, but only in respect of section 9(1) so far as it relates to taking and in respect of section 9(5).
(4) The Viviparous Lizard (Lacerta vivipara), the Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) and the Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica otherwise known as Natrix natrix) (which are already listed in Schedule 5 to the Act in respect of section 9(5) only) are hereby further listed in respect of section 9(1) so far as it relates to killing and injuring.
(5) The Carthusian Snail (Monacha cartusiana) and the Chequered Skipper butterfly (Carterocephalus palaemon) are hereby removed from Schedule 5 to the Act.
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The following plants are hereby added to Schedule 8 to the Act:

Common Name Scientific Name
Adder's-tongue, Least Ophioglossum lusitanicum
Cabbage, Lundy Rhynchosinapis wrightii
Colt's-foot, Purple Homogyne alpina
Cottongrass, Slender Eriophorum gracile
Crocus, Sand Romulea columnae
Cudweed, Red-tipped Filago lutescens
Fleabane, Alpine Erigeron borealis
Fleabane, Small Pulicaria vulgaris
Gentian, Fringed Gentianella ciliata
Germander, Cut-leaved Teucrium botrys
Goosefoot, Stinking Chenopodium vulvaria
Grass-poly Lythrum hyssopifolia
Hawk's-beard, Stinking Crepis foetida
Helleborine, Young's Epipactis youngiana
Horsetail, Branched Equisetum ramosissimum
Hound's-tongue, Green Cynoglossum germanicum
Marshwort, Creeping Apium repens
Milk-parsley, Cambridge Selinum carvifolia
Naiad, Holly-leaved Najas marina
Pennyroyal Mentha pulegium
Pigmyweed Crassula aquatica
Ragwort, Fen Senecio paludosus
Ramping-fumitory, Martin's Fumaria martinii
Restharrow, Small Ononis reclinata
Rock-cress, Alpine Arabis alpina
Rock-cress, Bristol Arabis stricta
Speedwell, Fingered Veronica triphyllos
Star-of-Bethlehem, Early Gagea bohemica
Stonewort, Foxtail Lamprothamnium papulosum
Strapwort Corrigiola litoralis
Viper's-grass Scorzonera humilis
Nicholas Ridley
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
19th February 1988