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5.—(1) Schedule 5 (animals which are protected at all times) is amended as follows.
(2) At the appropriate places in alphabetical order insert the following entries—
Common name | Scientific name |
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Butterfly, Real's Wood White | Leptidea reali |
Crayfish, White-Clawed | Austropotamobius pallipes |
Damselfly, Irish | Coenagrion lunulatum |
Lobster, Spiny | Palinurus elaphus |
Mussel, Fan | Atrina fragilis |
Seahorse, Short Snouted | Hippocampus hippocampus |
Seahorse, Spiny | Hippocampus guttulatus |
Skate, Common (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only) | Dipturus batis |
Shark, Angel (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only) | Squatina squatina |
Shark, Basking | Cetorhinus maximus |
(3) After the Note at the end of the Schedule insert—
“Note 2. In this Schedule “coastal waters” means the part of the territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland which is not more than 6 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of those waters is measured; and “nautical mile” means an international nautical mile of 1,872 metres.”.