The Snares (Training) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision about training in relation to setting snares. The Order also revokes the Snares (Training) (Scotland) Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/124) (article 4) which this Order replaces.

Article 3 makes provision as regards when a person has been trained to set a snare in position and on the circumstances in which the setting of snares is an appropriate method of predator control for the purposes of section 11A(4) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Article 3(1) specifies that a person is trained when the person holds a training certificate issued in accordance with article 3(2) and (3). The training certificate must be issued by an approved body (article 3(2)). The approved bodies are those listed in the Schedule to the Order (article 2(b)).

Article 3(3) provides that the training certificate must be issued to a person who the approved body determines (by examination or otherwise) is competent in the matters listed in sub‑paragraphs (a) to (d).

Article 3(4) provides that when determining that a person is competent in terms of article 3(3), an approved body may have regard to training undertaken, or qualifications obtained, by that person before the coming into force of the Order.

Article 3(5) deems training certificates issued by an approved body on or after 1st May 2010 and before the coming into force of the Order to be training certificates issued in accordance with article 3(2) and (3).

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from the Environmental Quality Division, Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ.