{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/58",
  "legislation_title": "Deer (Scotland) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deer-scotland-act-1996",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Power of court on trial for one offence to convict of another.",
  "text": "If, upon a trial for an offence under any of sections 5, 17 , 17A(4), 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 or 23 of this Act, or any rule of law relating to reset, the court is—\n(a) not satisfied that the accused is guilty of the offence charged, but\n(b) satisfied that he is guilty of another of those offences,\nit 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": "Word in s. 30 inserted (1.1.2012) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), ss. 30(6), 43(1) (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/433, art. 2(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/58/section/30",
    "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."
}