Infrastructure Act 2015

24 Native and non-native species etc

(1) Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (animals and plants to which section 14 of that Act applies) is amended as follows.

(2) In the heading to Part I, at the beginning insert “NON-NATIVE”.

(3) In Part I, omit the entries relating to the wild boar, capercaillie, chough, corncrake, common crane, white-tailed eagle, goshawk, red kite and barn owl.

(4) After Part I insert—

“PART IA NATIVE ANIMALS

Common name	Scientific name
NOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.”
Capercaillie	Tetrao urogallus
Chough	Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
Corncrake	Crex crex
Crane, Common	Grus grus
Eagle, White-tailed	Haliaetus albicilla
Goshawk	Accipiter gentilis
Kite, Red	Milvus milvus
Owl, Barn	Tyto alba.

(5) After Part IA (as inserted by subsection (4) above) insert—

“PART IB ANIMALS NO LONGER NORMALLY PRESENT

Common name	Scientific name
NOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.”
Beaver, Eurasian (but not in relation to Wales)	Castor fiber
Boar, Wild	Sus Scrofa.