Consultation outcome

UK ivory ban: implementing the Ivory Act 2018

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 9 March 2021
• Last updated: 14 September 2021
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  1. 14 September 2021

     Added summary of responses and government response.

  2. 2 September 2021

     Updated information about the public feedback to the consultation and the current status of the consultation.

  3. 9 March 2021

     First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Implementing the Ivory Act 2018: summary of responses and government response

PDF, 139 KB, 23 pages

Detail of outcome

We will be bringing forward secondary legislation to implement the Ivory Act in line with this government response.

Detail of feedback received

This consultation received 114 responses.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on the implementation of the UK ivory ban.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
11am on 9 March 2021 to 11:45pm on 4 May 2021

Consultation description

We want to know what you think about the proposals for implementing the UK ivory ban. This includes:

• starting the ban
• implementing the standard exemptions
• implementing the rare and most important exemption