14Short title, commencement and extent
(1)This Act may be cited as the Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1996.
(2)This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.
(3)Until an order in relation to red deer stags and hinds is made under section 21 of the principal Act (close seasons), as substituted by section 8 of this Act, the period for the purposes of subsection (1) of the said section 21 for—
(a)such stags shall be the period commencing on the twenty-first day of October and ending on the thirtieth day of June; and
(b)such hinds shall be the period commencing on the sixteenth day of February and ending on the twentieth day of October.
(4)Except for the repeals and amendments contained in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1, and the related entries in Schedule 2, to this Act, which have the same extent as the Acts there repealed and amended, this Act extends to Scotland only.