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)—

F1(a)

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(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.”