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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996/section-24",
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  "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  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 (repealed 18.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996",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/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Unlawful taking or killing of deer by two or more persons acting together.",
  "text": "If two or more persons acting together do any act which would constitute an offence against any of the three last foregoing sections of this Act, every such person shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding in respect of each deer taken or killed the statutory maximum, which in this section means the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 225(8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment;\n(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine. . . or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.\nand on any conviction to the forfeiture of any deer illegally taken or killed 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 substituted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 24 substituted (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss. 13(1), 14(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words added by Deer (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 19), s. 14(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/40/section/24",
    "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."
}