This application form is for a licence  to kill, take, sell or possess badgers or to interfere with badger setts for the purpose of science, education or conservation, ringing or marking or protection of a zoological collection.

Interference is defined by section 3 of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 and includes disturbing badgers when occupying a sett, damaging or destroying a badger sett and obstructing any entrance to a sett.