{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wild-mammals-protection-act-1996/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wild-mammals-protection-act-1996/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/3",
  "legislation_title": "Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wild-mammals-protection-act-1996",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Offences.",
  "text": "If, save as permitted by this Act, any person mutilates, kicks, beats, nails or otherwise impales, stabs, burns, stones, crushes, drowns, drags or asphyxiates any wild mammal with intent to inflict unnecessary suffering he shall be guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/3/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:29.827807+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."
}