{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/40",
  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 (repealed 18.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Prohibition of poaching.",
  "text": "Subject to section thirty-three of this Act, if any person without legal right to take or kill deer or without permission from a person having such right takes or wilfully kills or injures deer on any land, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 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, and to the forfeiture of any deer illegally taken or killed by him or in his possession at the time of the offence:\n. . .(2) Subject to section 33 of this Act, if any person without legal right to take or kill deer on any land or without permission from a person having such right removes any deer carcase from that land, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale for each carcase in respect of which the offence was committed or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both and to the forfeiture of any carcase illegally removed by him or in his possession at the time of the offence.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22 inserted (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss. 13(1), 14(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(18)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 6(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 22 substituted by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G and (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss. 13(1), 14(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(18)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 22 proviso repealed (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss. 13(1)(2), 14(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(18)(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 22(2) added by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 6(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/40/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:00.741447+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."
}