This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 2012/174 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that instrument.
2012 No. 206

Wildlife

The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012
Made
21st June 2012
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
25th June 2012
Coming into force
2nd July 2012
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 14(1)(a)(ii), (2D)(a) and (e) and 14ZC(1)(a) and (2)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 26(4A) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 , they have consulted Scottish Natural Heritage and any other person appearing to them to have an interest in the making of the Order.

Citation, commencement and interpretation
1
1
This Order may be cited as the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012, and comes into force on 2nd July 2012.
2
In this Order, “the 1981 Act” means the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Amendment of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012
2
1
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012 is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.
2
In articles 2 and 3, for “Latin” substitute “Scientific”.
3
For Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1, substitute Parts 1 and 2 which are set out in the Schedule to this Order.
RICHARD LOCHHEAD
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
21st June 2012
SCHEDULE
Article 2(3)
PART 1

Types of animals specified for the purposes of section 14(1)(a)(ii) of the 1981 Act (types of animal which it is an offence for a person to release or allow to escape from captivity)
Common name Column (1) | Scientific name Column (2) | Extent Column (3)
Deer | All species of the genus Cervus | Outer Hebrides and the islands of Arran (including Holy Island), Islay, Jura and Rum
PART 2

Types of invasive animals specified for the purposes of section 14ZC(1)(a) of the 1981 Act (types of animal which it is an offence for a person to keep, have in their possession or have under their control)
Common name Column (1) | Scientific name Column (2)
Asp | Aspius aspius
Barbel | species of the genus Barbus (excluding Barbus barbus)
Bass (excluding sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax) | Micropterus salmoides; Micropterus dolomieu; Ambloplites rupestris; and species of the genus Morone
Bighead carp | Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
Bitterling | Rhodeus sericeus/Rhodeus amarus
Blacknose dace | Rhinichthys atratulus
Blageon | Telestes souffia
Blue bream | Ballerus ballerus
Blue sucker | Cycleptus elongatus
Burbot | Lota lota
Catfish | species of the genera Ictalurus, Ameiurus and Silurus
Charr | species of the genus Salvelinus (excluding Salvelinus alpinus)
Chinese black or snail-eating carp | Mylopharyngodon piceus
Chinese sucker (also known as Zebra hi fin, banded shark/sucker) | Myxocyprinus asiaticus
Common white sucker | Catostomus commersonii
Coypu | Myocastor coypus
Crayfish | freshwater decapod crustacean of the Families Astacidae, Cambaridae or Parastacidae, (excluding Austropotamobius pallipes)
Danubian bleak | Alburnus chalcoides
Danubian salmon & Taimen | species of the genus Hucho
Eastern mudminnow | Umbra pygmaea
European mudminnow | Umbra krameri
Fathead minnow (or Roseyreds) | Pimephales promelas
Freshwater minnow, Dragon fish or Pale chub | Zacco platypus
Grass carp | Ctenopharyngodon idella
Grey squirrel | Sciurus carolinensis
Landlocked salmon | non anadromous varieties of the species Salmo salar
Marbled trout | Salmo marmoratus
Mink | Mustela vison
Muntjac | Species of genus Muntiacus
Muskrat | Ondatra zibethica
Nase | Chondrostoma nasus
Northern redbelly dace | Chrosomus eos
Pacific salmon and trout | species of the genus Oncorhynchus (excluding Oncorhynchus mykiss
Paddlefish | species of the genera Polyodon and Psephurus
Perch | species of the genus Perca (excluding Perca fluviatilis)
Pike | species of the genus Esox (excluding Esox lucius)
Pikeperch | Sanderlucioperca
Rabbit (excluding European rabbit) | species of the genera Bunolagus, Brachylagus, Nesolagus, Pentalagus, Poelagus, Romerolagus and Sylvilagus
Red shiner | Cyprinella lutrensis
Ruffe | Gymnocephalus cernua
Schneider | Alburnoides bipunctatus
Silver carp | Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Snakehead | species of the genus Channa
Southern redbelly dace | Chrosomus erythrogaster
Sturgeon or sterlet | species of the genera Acipenser, Huso, Pseudoscaphirhynchus and Scaphirhynchus
Sunbleak (Sundace), also known as Belica or Motherless minnow | Leucaspius delineatus
Sunfish, including pumpkinseed (also Basses, Crappies & Bluegills) | species of the genus Lepomis
Topmouth gudgeon | Pseudorasbora parva
Toxostome (or French nase) | Parachondrostoma toxostoma
Vimba | Vimba vimba
Weatherfish | Misgurnus fossilis
Whitefish | species of the genus Coregonus (excluding Coregonus lavaretus and Coregonus albula)

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Keeping and Release and Notification Requirements) (Scotland) Order 2012 (“the 2012 Order”) which makes provision about the release of certain animals, the keeping of invasive animals and notification requirements in relation to the presence of invasive animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) as amended by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011.
Article 2(2) of this Order amends articles 2 and 3 of the 2012 Order so as to refer to “Scientific name” instead of “Latin name”.
Article 2(3) of, and the Schedule to, this Order substitutes new Parts 1 and 2 into Schedule 1 to the 2012 Order. The newly substituted Part 1 amends the entry in relation to Deer so as to correctly refer to the island of Arran. In the newly substituted Part 2, a number of the entries in the table have been amended so as to correctly refer to the current nomenclature for these species. The headings in column (2) of the table in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 have also been amended to refer to “Scientific name” instead of “Latin name”.
1981 c.69. Sections 14(1) and (2D) and section 14B(1), (2) and (4) were substituted by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6) (“the 2011 Act”), section 14(2) and (5) respectively; and section 14ZC was inserted by the 2011 Act, section 14(3).
Section 26(4A) was inserted by section 17(6) of the 2011 Act.
S.S.I. 2012/174.