{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-act-1963-repealed-25101991/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-act-1963-repealed-25101991/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1963/36",
  "legislation_title": "Deer Act 1963 (Repealed 25.10.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-act-1963-repealed-25101991",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Penalties and forfeitures.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the next following subsection, a person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.\n(2) Where an offence under this Act was committed in respect of more than one deer the maximum fine which may be imposed under the last foregoing subsection shall be determined as if the person convicted had been convicted of a separate offence in respect of each deer.\n(3)\nThe court by which a person is convicted of an offence under this Act may order the forfeiture of—\n(a) any deer in respect of which the offence was committed or which was found in his possession;\n(b) any vehicle, animal, weapon or other thing which was used to commit the offence or which was capable of being used to take, kill or injure deer and was found in his possession.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 5 and 6 substituted for ss. 5–8 by Deer Act 1980 (c. 49, SIF 4:3), s. 7, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/36/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:24.308621+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."
}