Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982

6 Unlawful taking, killing and injury of deer, and removal of carcases

The said Act of 1959 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in sections 21(1) and 23(2) after the word " kill " there shall be inserted the words " or injure ";

(b) for subsection (2) of section 21 there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(2) The Secretary of State may by order fix a period in each year during which no person shall take or wilfully kill or injure—

(a) any species of deer named in the order other than red deer; or

(b) any hybrid of any species of deer named in the order,

and he may fix a different period for males and females of the species or, as the case may be, of the hybrid so named.”;

(c) in section 22 at the end there shall be added the following new subsection—

“(2) Subject to section 33 of this Act, if any person without legal right to take or kill deer on any land or without permission from a person having such right removes any deer carcase from that land, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £500 for each carcase in respect of which the offence was committed or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both and to the forfeiture of any carcase illegally removed by him or in his possession at the time of the offence.”; and

(d) in sections 22 and 23(1) after the word " kills " there shall be inserted the words " or injures ".