Section 1 Penalty for stealing oysters or oyster brood.

If any person in Scotland shall wilfully and knowingly take and carry away any oysters or oyster brood from any oyster bed, laying, or fishery, being the property of any other person or persons, 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.