{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-wildlife-penalties-protections-and-powers-scotland-act-2020/section-5.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/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Disqualification orders: further provision",
  "text": "(1) The 2006 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 40 (disqualification orders) —\n(a) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) The purpose of a disqualification order is for the future protection of animals and not in substitution for a penalty for a relevant offence.”,\n(b) in subsection (6), the words “, or instead of,” are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 30.9.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/303, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/14/section/5",
    "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."
}