SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12 Amendments relating to Part I of Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

5

In section 9 of that Act (protection of certain wild animals)—

F1a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

b

after that subsection there is inserted—

4A

Subject to the provisions of this Part, if any person intentionally or recklessly disturbs any wild animal included in Schedule 5 as—

a

a dolphin or whale (cetacea), or

b

a basking shark (cetorhinus maximus),

he shall be guilty of an offence.