{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/schedule/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/schedule/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/4",
  "legislation_title": "Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Notice of testing of item",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where—\n(a) a glue trap purchased (or acquired under direction or by agreement) by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 4 is submitted to a test and as a result proceedings are brought for an offence under section 2 or 3, or\n(b) a glue trap or item seized by an officer of a local weights and measures authority under paragraph 8 is submitted to a test.\n(2) The local weights and measures must inform the relevant person of the results of the test.\n(3) The local weights and measures authority must allow a relevant person to have the glue trap or item tested if it is reasonably practicable to do so.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), “relevant person” means the person from whom the glue trap or item was purchased or seized.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (3), “relevant person” means—\n(a) in a case within sub-paragraph (1)(a), a person who is a party to the proceedings, or\n(b) in any other case, a person referred to in sub-paragraph (4).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 14 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 35(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 14 in force at 1.7.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/127, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/4/schedule/paragraph/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:11.818443+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."
}