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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act 1976, Section 12.
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(1)For the purposes of this Act an individual of the family Hominidae (man) is not an animal.
(2)In this Act a reference to a dead animal of any particular kind includes a reference to the body of an animal of that kind—
(a)which is frozen, dried or preserved by chemicals, or
(b)which, although not complete (whether because it has been eviscerated or because it has had the whole of its inside removed and has been stuffed, or for any other reason), is substantially complete and externally substantially resembles the complete body of an animal of the kind concerned.
(3)In this Act a reference to a dead plant of any particular kind includes a reference to a plant of that kind—
(a)which is frozen, dried or preserved by chemicals, or
(b)which, although for any reason not complete, is substantially complete and externally substantially resembles a complete dead plant of the kind concerned.
(4)In this Act “enactment” includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or of the Northern Ireland Assembly and an Order in Council having the same effect as such an enactment.
(5)Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended, and includes a reference to it as extended or applied, by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
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