Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 14)

CHAPTER 1 S Animal welfare, animal health and wildlife: offences and penalties

Protection of certain wild animals S

18 Protection of certain wild animals S

(1) The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 10A (protection of wild hares etc.), in subsection (2), paragraph (a) is repealed.

(3) In schedule 5—

(a) after the entry in the first column for “Grasshopper, Wart-biter” insert—

“Hare, mountain”,

(b) at the corresponding place in the second column insert—

“Lepus timidus”.

(4) In schedule 5A—

(a) in the first column, the entry for “Hare, mountain” is repealed,

(b) in the second column, the entry for “Lepus timidus” is repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 18 in force at 1.3.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/42, reg. 2