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Deer (Scotland) Act 1959
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- 1959 c. 40
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33Exemptions for certain acts
(1)A person shall not be guilty of any offence against this Act or any order made thereunder in respect of any act done for the prevention of suffering by an injured or diseased deer.
(2)A person shall not be guilty of any offence against this Act, other than an offence against section twenty-three, in respect of any act done under the authority of or at the request of the Commission in pursuance of section six of this Act or in pursuance of a control scheme.
(3)Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-one of this Act, or of any order made thereunder, it shall not be an offence for an occupier of agricultural land or of enclosed woodlands, or for any person authorised by him in writing in that behalf, to take or kill during a close season any deer found on any arable land, garden grounds or land laid down in permanent grass (other than moorland and unenclosed land) forming part of that land, or on such woodlands, as the case may be.
(4)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of section twenty-three of this Act, it shall not be an offence for an occupier of agricultural land or of enclosed woodlands to take or kill during the period specified in that subsection any deer found on any such arable land, garden grounds or land laid down in permanent grass as aforesaid, or on such woodlands, as the case may be.
(5)The provisions of the last two foregoing subsections shall be construed as one with the Agriculture (Scotland) Act, 1948.
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