{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-act-1970/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-act-1970/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/30",
  "legislation_title": "Conservation of Seals Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-act-1970",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "General exceptions.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section 1 of this Act by reason only of—\n(a) the taking or attempted taking of any seal which had been disabled ... and was taken or to be taken solely for the purpose of tending it and releasing it when no longer disabled;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section 1 ... of this Act by reason only of the killing of any seal which had been so seriously disabled ... that there was no reasonable chance of its recovering.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 9(1) substituted (1.3.2021) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(i) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(1)(a) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(ii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 9(1)(b) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(iii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 9(1)(c) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(a)(iii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(b)(i) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 9(2) omitted (1.3.2021) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(5), Sch. 9 para. 8(b)(ii) (with Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/30/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:10.851947+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."
}