{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/58",
  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Advice and annual reports to Secretary of State.",
  "text": "(1) SNH shall—\n(a) advise the Secretary of State on any such matter relating to the purposes of this Act as he may refer toit; and\n(b) bring to his attention any matter relating to deer of which in the opinion of SNH he ought to be apprised.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Act substituted (1.8.2010) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 1 para. 6; S.S.I. 2010/221, art. 3(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 2(1)(a) substituted (1.8.2010) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 1 para. 9(a); S.S.I. 2010/221, art. 3(2), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 2(2)(3) repealed (1.8.2010) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 1 para. 9(b); S.S.I. 2010/221, art. 3(2), Sch.; S.S.I. 2010/221, art. 3(2), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/58/section/2",
    "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."
}