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(1) This Order may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (England) Order 2008.
(2) This Order shall come into force on 6th April 2008.
(3) This Order extends to England and Wales only.
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In Schedule 5 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (animals which are protected)—
(a) insert the entries listed in the Schedule;
(b) in the entry relating to “Vole, Water”, before “in respect of section 9(4) only”, insert “in so far as this entry has effect with respect to Wales,”; and
(c) at the end of the Schedule, insert the following note—“NOTE 2. In this Schedule “excluded waters” means the part of the territorial waters adjacent to England which is more than 6 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of those waters are measured; and for these purposes “nautical miles” means international nautical miles of 1,852 metres.”.
Joan Ruddock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
21st February 2008
SCHEDULE
Article 2


Common Name Scientific Name
Seahorse, Short Snouted (with respect to England only) Hippocampus hippocampus
Seahorse, Spiny (with respect to England only) Hippocampus guttulatus
Shark, Angel (in respect of section 9(1) only and with respect to England, other than the excluded waters, only) Squatina squatina
Snail, Roman (in respect of section 9(1), (2) and (5) only and with respect to England only) Helix pomatia