Scottish grouse shooting licences

[Smellydog]

So if I'm stalking in Scotland for a couple of days on ground I rent but fancy walking for a grouse one day I've got to keep it to myself?

 

[jall55]

If you were to apply for an injunction challenging the license requirement, it would be placed on hold pending resolution of the dispute.
Your grounds for requesting an injunction are that the proposed license constitutes the confiscation of a private asset by the state without compensation.

Yes - something like this is where i would welcome to see BASC fighting fund money spent

It is sad that money need to be spent on thing like this really though when you think about it - Just think how the money spent by the likes of wild justice etc could really be used to benefit nature

 

[Mickeydredd]

Thanks, I did not know that.

9Killing and taking of certain birds permitted only on land with section 16AA licence​

(1C)Where subsection (1D) applies, a person does not commit an offence under section 1 by reason of killing or taking a bird included in Part 1B of Schedule 2 outside the close season for that bird, or the injuring of such a bird outside that season in the course of an attempt to kill it.

(1D)This subsection applies where—

(a)the bird was killed or taken through the use of a bird of prey, or injured in an attempt to do so,

(b)either—

(i)the person who killed or injured it had a legal right, or permission, to kill such a bird, or

(ii)the person who took it had a legal right, or permission, to take such a bird, and

(c)in the case where the person subsequently killed the injured bird, the person took all reasonable steps to kill it in a way that caused it the minimum possible suffering.”,

 

[Conor O'Gorman]

9Killing and taking of certain birds permitted only on land with section 16AA licence​

(1C)Where subsection (1D) applies, a person does not commit an offence under section 1 by reason of killing or taking a bird included in Part 1B of Schedule 2 outside the close season for that bird, or the injuring of such a bird outside that season in the course of an attempt to kill it.

(1D)This subsection applies where—

(a)the bird was killed or taken through the use of a bird of prey, or injured in an attempt to do so,

(b)either—

(i)the person who killed or injured it had a legal right, or permission, to kill such a bird, or

(ii)the person who took it had a legal right, or permission, to take such a bird, and

(c)in the case where the person subsequently killed the injured bird, the person took all reasonable steps to kill it in a way that caused it the minimum possible suffering.”,

Thanks!

 

[nun_hunter]

NatureScot announces the commencement of its utterly shambolic & unenforceable changes to grouse moor licencing

If you get past the biased slant of the author it does read as though there is some good news for grouse moors and the likely impact of these licences.

 

[Dan Newcombe]

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So if I'm stalking in Scotland for a couple of days on ground I rent but fancy walking for a grouse one day I've got to keep it to myself?

Just apply for the license. Takes literally 5 minutes if you have a decent map to hand and not much more if you have to draw one. It’s a registration more than a license for the process.