The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2024
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2024/267 |
| Year | 2024 |
2024 No. 267 (C. 22)
Nature Conservation
The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2024
Made 26th September 2024
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 30th September 2024
Coming into force 17th October 2024
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 35(2) of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 20241.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 17 October 2024.
Appointed days
2.—(1) 17 October 2024 is the appointed day for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024—
(a)
(a) section 11 (powers to inspect and investigate certain wildlife offences),
(b)
(b) section 33 (regulations),
(c)
(c) section 34 (ancillary provision).
(2) 25 November 2024 is the appointed day for the coming into force of section 6 (prohibition of use of snares) of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024.
Saving provision
3. An appointment or authorisation by the Scottish Ministers under section 49(2)(a) of the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 20062before 17 October 2024 will continue to have effect as it did immediately before that date.
JIM FAIRLIE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
26th September 2024
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
The Bill for the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 (“the Act”) received Royal Assent on 30 April 2024. Sections 35 and 36 of the Act came into force the following day. These Regulations commence sections 11, 33 and 34 on 17 October 2024, and section 6 on 25 November 2024.
Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) setting in position or otherwise using snares in certain circumstances (including when this did not cause unnecessary suffering to any animal coming into contact with it or under licence issued under section 16(3) of the 1981 Act) was still permitted in Scotland. Section 6 of the 2024 Act amends the 1981 Act to make it an offence to: set in position or otherwise use a snare for the purposes of killing any animal (other than a wild bird); set in position or...
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