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Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948

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[F150A Open trapping of hares and rabbits.S

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, a person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection if, for the purpose of killing or taking hares or rabbits, he uses, or knowingly permits the use of, a spring trap elsewhere than in a rabbit hole.

(2)A person guilty of an offence under the foregoing subsection shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds or, if he has been previously convicted of such an offence, a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3)Subsection (1) of this section shall not render unlawful the use of spring traps under and in accordance with a licence given by the Secretary of State.

(4)A licence under this section—

(a)may be embodied in a rabbit clearance order under the M1Pests Act, 1954, or in a notice given under subsection (1) of section thirty-nine of this Act; and

(b)whether so embodied or not, may be revoked by the Secretary of State (in whole or in part) by giving notice of the revocation in such manner as he thinks sufficient to inform the persons concerned.]

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F1Ss. 50, 50A substituted for s. 50 by Pests Act 1954 (c. 68), s. 10

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C1S. 50A(2) has effect as if the maximum fines there mentioned were fines not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale by virtue of 1975 c. 21, ss. 289C, 289G, Sch. 7C (as inserted by 1977 C. 45, Sch. 11 paras. 5, 13 and by 1982 c. 48, s. 54) (which 1975 Act was repealed (1.4.1996) by 1996 c. 40, ss. 6, 7(2), Sch. 5) and (1.4.1996) by virtue of 1996 c. 40, ss. 3, 7(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. II.

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