6(1)Section 9 of the Badgers Act 1973 (power to grant licences) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (2)(a), for the words “Nature Conservancy Council” there shall be substituted the words “Nature Conservancy Council for England, the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland or the Countryside Council for Wales (according as the area specified in the licence is in England, Scotland or Wales)”.
(3)In subsection (4)—
(a)for the words from “the Nature” to “functions” there shall be substituted the words “each of the following bodies, namely, the Nature Conservancy Council for England, the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland and the Countryside Council for Wales as to the exercise in the respective areas of those Councils of the functions of those Ministers”; and
(b)after the word “Council” in the second place it appears, there shall be inserted the words “for the area specified in the licence”.