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(1)Subject to section thirty-three of this Act, no person shall take or wilfully kill [F1or injure] any stag, being a red deer, during the period commencing on the twenty-first day of October and ending on the thirtieth day of June or any hind, being a red deer, during the period commencing on the sixteenth day of February and ending on the twentieth day of October.
[F2(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.]
(3)Before making any such order as aforesaid the Secretary of State shall consult with any organisations that appear to him to represent persons likely to be affected by the order.
(4)For the purposes of this section “red deer” means deer of the species cervus elaphus.
(5)If any person contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) of this section or of any order made under subsection (2) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F3[F4level 4 on the standard scale] for each deer in respect of which the offence was committed]or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such fine and imprisonment [F5and to the forfeiture of any deer in respect of which the offence was committed].
[F6(5A) This section does not apply to the killing of deer by any person who keeps those deer by way of business on land enclosed by a deer-proof barrier for the production of meat or foodstuffs, or skins or other by-products, or as breeding stock (or to such killing of deer by the servant or agent of any such person authorised by him for that purpose); provided that the deer are conspicuously marked to demonstrate that they are so kept.]
(6)This section shall come into operation on the twenty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 6(a)
F2S. 21(2) substituted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 6(b)
F3Words substituted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1
F4Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G
F5Words added by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1
F6S. 21(5A) inserted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 7
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