[10B Exceptions to s 10A]
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (1981 c 69) | Legislation

[10B  Exceptions to s 10A]

[(1)     A person is not guilty of an offence under section 10A(1) by reason of the killing of an animal included in Schedule 5A if he shows that the animal had been so seriously disabled otherwise than by his unlawful act that there was no reasonable chance of its recovering.

(2)     A person is not guilty of an offence under section 10A(1) by reason of taking any such animal if he shows that—

(a)     he had a legal right to take such an animal or permission,

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