{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wildlife-management-and-muirburn-scotland-act-2024/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Penalties relating to use of spring traps",
  "text": "(1) The Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 50 (prohibition of night shooting, and use of spring traps)—\n(a) in subsection (2), for “the foregoing subsection” substitute “subsection (1)(a)”,\n(b) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)(b), (c) or (d) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding £40,000 (or both),\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine (or both).”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 35(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/4/section/8",
    "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."
}