{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2020/14",
  "legislation_title": "Animals and Wildlife (Penalties, Protections and Powers) (Scotland) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Prevention of harm to animals: penalties for offences",
  "text": "(1) The Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 (in this Act, “the 2006 Act”) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 46 (penalties for offences)—\n(a) for subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) A person who commits an offence under section 19 or 23 is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding £20,000 (or both),\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine (or both).”,\n(b) in subsection (3)—\n(i) after “Part” insert “ (other than under regulations made under section 46A) ”,\n(ii) for “referred to in subsection (2)” substitute “ mentioned in subsection (4) ”,\n(c) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(4) The penalties referred to in subsection (4) are imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding £40,000 (or both).”.\n(3) Section 44 is repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 30.11.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/379, reg. 2(1), sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/14/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:44.699143+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}