Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023
Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 (2023 asp 1)
- Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 (2023 asp 1)
- Part 1 Hunting a wild mammal using a dog
- Offences
- 1 Offence of hunting a wild mammal using a dog
- 2 Offences of knowingly causing or permitting another person to hunt using a dog
- Exceptions to the offences
- 3 Exception: management of wild mammals above ground
- 4 Licence for use of more than two dogs in connection with section 3
- 5 Exception: management of foxes below ground
- 6 Exception: falconry, game shooting and deer stalking
- 7 Exception: relieving the suffering of injured wild mammals
- 8 Exception: searching for dead wild mammals
- 9 Exception: environmental benefit
- 10 Licence for use of more than two dogs in connection with section 9
- General provision on licences
- 11 Delegation of functions in relation to licences
- 12 Offence of providing false information to obtain a licence
- 13 Review of operation of sections 4 and 10
- Part 2 Trail hunting
- Offences
- 14 Offences relating to trail hunting
- 15 Power to modify meaning of trail hunting
- Exception to the offences
- 16 Exception: training dogs to follow an animal-based scent
- Part 3 Further provision relating to offences
- Enforcement
- 17 Search of a person without warrant
- 18 Powers of enforcement
- Proceedings
- 19 Time limit for summary proceedings
- 20 Individual culpability where organisation commits an offence
- Court orders
- 21 Deprivation orders
- 22 Disqualification orders
- 23 Seizure orders where disqualification breached
- 24 Termination or variation of disqualification
- 25 Appeals against orders
- Part 4 General provisions
- 26 Ancillary provision
- 27 Interpretation
- 28 Repeal of the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and consequential modifications
- 29 Crown application: criminal offences
- 30 Crown application: powers of entry
- 31 Commencement
- 32 Short title
- Schedule Enforcement powers
- Interpretation
- Entry and associated powers
- Stopping and detaining vehicles or vessels
- Entry and associated powers: supplementary
- Offences
- Powers of constables under this schedule
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