Valid from 01/10/2004
[F114BGuidance: non-native speciesS
(1)The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance (or approve guidance issued by others) for the purpose of providing persons with recommendations, advice and information regarding—
(a)any animal of a type mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A) of section 14,
(b)any plant of a type mentioned in subsection (2) of that section or specified in an order under section 14A(1)(b)(i),
and may issue revisions of any guidance issued by them (or approve revisions of guidance issued by others).
(2)A person who fails to comply with any guidance issued or approved under subsection (1) is not by reason only of that failure liable in any criminal or civil proceedings.
(3)But any such guidance is admissible in evidence in such proceedings and a court may take account of any failure to comply with it in determining any questions in the proceedings.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 14A, 14B inserted (S.) (1.10.2004) by Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 6), ss. 50, 59, Sch. 6 para. 13; S.S.I. 2004/407, art. 2