| Guvnor

Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 3 of 9 obligations carry imprisonment (6 months). 3 carry different penalties and 3 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person4 Occupier2

Plus 3 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts

The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 47 duties

Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 46 duties

The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 34 duties

Highways Act 1980 23 duties

Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 19 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

Hunting a wild mammal using a dog

6 of 13 sections shown

s.001 Offence of hunting a wild mammal using a dog Imprisonment

Hunt a wild mammal using a dogAny Person

s.002 Offences of knowingly causing or permitting another person to hunt using a dog Imprisonment

Cause or permit illegal hunting of wild mammals with dogsOccupier

s.004 Licence for use of more than two dogs in connection with section 3 Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Licensing authority must decide applications for using more than two dogs for wildlife managementCrown / Minister / Government department

s.010 Licence for use of more than two dogs in connection with section 9 Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Licensing authority must consider and decide on applications for licences to use more than two dogsLocal authority

s.012 Offence of providing false information to obtain a licence Imprisonment

Provide false information to obtain a licenceAny Person

s.013 Review of operation of sections 4 and 10 Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Scottish Ministers must review hunting-with-dogs rules and report to ParliamentCrown / Minister / Government department

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.003 Exception: management of wild mammals above ground

s.005 Exception: management of foxes below ground

s.006 Exception: falconry, game shooting and deer stalking

s.007 Exception: relieving the suffering of injured wild mammals

s.008 Exception: searching for dead wild mammals

s.009 Exception: environmental benefit

s.011 Delegation of functions in relation to licences

Part 2

Trail hunting

1 of 3 sections shown

s.014 Offences relating to trail hunting Imprisonment

Engage in or permit trail hunting without lawful exceptionOccupier

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.015 Power to modify meaning of trail hunting

s.016 Exception: training dogs to follow an animal-based scent

Part 3

Further provision relating to offences

2 of 9 sections shown

s.022 Disqualification orders Imprisonment

Breach a dog disqualification orderAny Person

s.025 Appeals against orders Imprisonment

Sell or dispose of dog or horse while deprivation order is suspendedAny Person

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.017 Search of a person without warrant

s.018 Powers of enforcement

s.019 Time limit for summary proceedings

s.020 Individual culpability where organisation commits an offence

s.021 Deprivation orders

s.023 Seizure orders where disqualification breached

s.024 Termination or variation of disqualification

Part 4

General provisions

0 of 7 sections shown

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.026 Ancillary provision

s.027 Interpretation

s.028 Repeal of the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and consequential modifications

s.029 Crown application: criminal offences

s.030 Crown application: powers of entry

s.031 Commencement

s.032 Short title

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires

Hunting a wild mammal using a dog

Trail hunting

Further provision relating to offences

General provisions