{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-17B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-17B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/58",
  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996",
  "path": "section/17B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17B",
  "heading": "Review of competence etc. by SNH",
  "text": "(1) SNH must carry out a review of the following matters if the power in section 17A(1) is not exercised by 1st April 2014—\n(a) levels of competence among persons who shoot deer in Scotland;\n(b) the effect of such levels of competence on deer welfare.\n(2) In any such review, the matters SNH must consider include—\n(a) the extent to which such persons have been trained to shoot deer and the availability and nature of such training;\n(b) any available evidence as regards any effect of the absence of such training, or the nature of such training, on the welfare of deer which have been shot.\n(3) If SNH carries out a review, it must—\n(a) when doing so consult such persons and organisations as it considers have an interest in the review; and\n(b) publish a report of the review.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 17A, 17B and cross-heading inserted (1.1.2012) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), ss. 30(4), 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/433, art. 2(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2026/6",
      "affecting_title": "Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/58/section/17B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:29.246415+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."
}