Schedule 9B, Part 2, paragraph 4

This paragraph applies where— a person is charged with an offence under section 14ZC or 14AA, and the activity to which the charge relates contravenes one of the following paragraphs of Article 7(1) of the Invasive Alien Species Regulation— paragraph (b) (keeping, including in contained holding), paragraph (d) (transporting to, from or within Scotland, except for the transportation of species to facilities in the context of eradication). It is a defence to the charge to show that— the specimen to which the charge relates was received by the person— from a keeper of commercial stocks of specimens of the species to which the specimen belongs, and before the end of the period of one year beginning with the date on which that species was included on the Scottish list of species of special concern, and at all material times— the specimen was kept and transported in contained holding, and appropriate measures were in place to ensure that it could not reproduce or escape.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30