{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/section-2.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": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offence of supplying glue trap",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for a person, without reasonable excuse, to supply, or offer to supply, a glue trap.\n(2) It is an offence for a person to knowingly cause or permit an unauthorised person to commit an offence under subsection (1).\n(3) A person does not commit an offence under subsection (1) if the person is an authorised person.\n(4) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding £40,000 (or both),\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to a fine (or both).\n(5) In this section—\n“authorised person” has the meaning given in section 1(7),\n“glue trap” has the meaning given in section 1(7),\n“supply” of a glue trap includes—\n(a) selling it,\n(b) exchanging it for a consideration other than money,\n(c) giving it as a prize or otherwise making a gift of it,\n(d) otherwise making the glue trap available.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 35(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 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/section/2",
    "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."
}