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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 308

WILDLIFE

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule) (Scotland) Order 2005

  Made 7th June 2005 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 7th June 2005 
  Coming into force 30th June 2005 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 22(1)(c) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981[1], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having consulted with Scottish Natural Heritage in accordance with section 22(2A) of that Act, and having given any local authority affected and any other person affected an opportunity to submit objections or representations with respect to the subject matter of this Order in accordance with section 26(4)(a) of that Act, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule) (Scotland) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 30th June 2005.

    (2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

Variation of Schedule 9
     2. The following plants are added to Part II of Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981-

Common name Scientific name
Fanwort Cabomba caroliniana
Hyacinth, water Eichhornia crassipes
Lettuce, water Pistia stratiotes
Salvinia, Giant Salvinia molesta
Fern, Water Azolla filiculoides
Parrot's-feather Myriophyllum aquaticum
Pennywort, Floating Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
Stonecrop, Australian swamp Crassula helmsii
Waterweed, Curly Lagarosiphon major
False-acacia Robinia pseudoacacia
Fig, Hottentot Carpobrotus edulis
Leek, Few-flowered Allium paradoxum
Shallon Gaultheria shallon


LEWIS MACDONALD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
7th June 2005


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order, which applies in Scotland only, varies Part II of Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, by adding thirteen species of plant to the list of species of plants which may not be planted or otherwise caused to grow in the wild.

Notes:

 [1] 1981 c.69; sections 22 and 26 were amended by the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).back


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 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 13 June 2005

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