http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/279/article/2The Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2011RabbitsWildlifeLegislationNature conservationDangerous animal licencesenWILDLIFEStatute Law Database2026-09-03Expert Participation2011-06-29
This Order brings certain provisions of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) (“the Act”) into force on 29th June 2011 and brings section 34 of the Act into force on 1st August 2011.
Appointed days2129thJune 2011 is the day appointed for the following provisions of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 to come into force:—asection2 (application of the 1981 Act to game birds);bsection3 (protection of game birds etc. and prevention of poaching);csection5 (sale of live or dead wild birds, their eggs etc.);dsection 6(2) and (5) (protection of wild hares etc.), insofar as necessary to introduce Schedule 5A to the 1981 Act;esection7 (prevention of poaching: wild hares, rabbits etc.);fsection8 (sale, possession etc. of wild hares, rabbits etc. killed or taken unlawfully) but only insofar as it relates to an animal killed or taken in contravention of section 11G of the 1981 Act;gsection9 (wild hares, rabbits etc.: licences), insofar as it relates to sections 11G(1) and 11I(1) of the 1981 Act;hsection10 (wild hares, rabbits etc.: power to vary Schedules to the 1981 Act and prescribe close seasons);isection12 (single witness evidence in certain proceedings under the 1981 Act), except to the extent that it relates to an offence under section 10A(1) of the 1981 Act;jsection18 (licences under the 1981 Act);ksection19 (amendments to Schedule6 to the 1981 Act);lsection25 (modifications and repeals relating to Part2 and game licensing) and the schedule, but only in respect of—iPart 1 of the schedule; andiithe first to the thirteenth, the fifteenth to the eighteenth, and the last entry of Part2 of the schedule;msection33 (protection of badgers);nsection37 (combining sites of special scientific interest);osection38 (denotification of SSSIs: damage caused by authorised operations);psection39 (SSSIs: operations requiring consent); andqsection40 (SSSI offences: civil enforcement).21st August 2011 is the day appointed for section 34 (Muirburn) of the 2011 Act to come into force.Art. 2 in force at 29.6.2011, see art. 1(1)Art. 2(1)(l)(ii) substituted (29.6.2011) by The Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (Commencement No. 1) Amendment Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/287), arts. 1, 2(2)