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.”