Wildlife and Countryside

Scottish Executive

ENVIRONMENT AND RURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT

NOTICE UNDER SECTION 26(5) OF THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981

THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981 (VARIATION OF SCHEDULE) (SCOTLAND) ORDER 2005

Notice is hereby given under section 26(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) that the Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 22(1)(c) of the 1981 Act, have made an Order to vary Schedule 9 to that Act.

The Order (“The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule) (Scotland) Order 2005”) adds the under noted species of plant to Part II of Schedule 9 to the 1981 Act. The Order therefore has the effect of making it an offence, by virtue of section 14(2) of the 1981 Act, for any person to plant or otherwise cause to grow in the wild any plant of the species listed below, or any hybrid of such a plant.

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

The Order comes into force on 30 June 2005. The Order will be published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and will be available on the website of the Office of Public Sector Information (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/).

Duncan Isles

The Scottish Executive, Environment and Rural Affairs Department, Wildlife and Habitats Division, Room G-H93, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ. Tel: 0131 244 4435; Fax 0131 244 7163. Email: Duncan.Isles@scotland.gsi.gov.uk