{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003/section-59",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/15",
  "legislation_title": "Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Power of court in trial for an offence to convict of another",
  "text": "If, upon a trial for an offence under section 9, 16 or 20 of this Act, or any rule of law relating to reset, the court is satisfied that the accused is—\n(a) not guilty of the offence charged; but\n(b) guilty of another of those offences,\nit may acquit the accused of the offence charged but find the accused guilty of the other offence and the accused shall then be liable to the punishment for that other offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/174, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/15/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:44.351409+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."
}