{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996/section-25AA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996/section-25AA.json",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  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1959 (repealed 18.11.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1959-repealed-18111996",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/25AA",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25AA",
  "heading": "Power of court in trial in one offence to convict of another.",
  "text": "If, upon a trial for an offence under any of sections 21, 22, 23, 23A, 24 or 25 of this Act, or any rule of law relating to reset, the court is not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence charged but is guilty of another of those offences, it may acquit him of the offence charged but find him guilty of the other offence and he shall then be liable to the same punishment as for that other offence.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 25, 25AA substituted for s. 25 (18.10.1996) by 1996 c. 44, ss, 9, 14(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/40/section/25AA",
    "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."
}