Section 1 Persons unlawfully taking mussels from mussel beds deemed guilty of theft.

If any person in Scotland shall wilfully, knowingly, and wrongfully take and carry away any mussels or mussel brood from any mussel bed, scalp laying, or fishery, being the property and in the lawful occupation of any other person or persons or body corporate or politic, and sufficiently marked out or known as such, every such offender shall be deemed guilty of theft, and being guilty thereof shall be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding the term of one year.