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Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023

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46Prohibition on use of snares and glue traps

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In section 11 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69) (prohibition of certain methods of killing or taking wild animals), in subsection (1)—

(a)after paragraph (b) insert—

(ba)sets in position in Wales any snare, or other cable restraint, which is of such a nature and so placed as to be likely to cause bodily injury to any wild animal coming into contact with it;

(bb)uses in Wales for the purpose of killing or taking any wild animal any snare, or other cable restraint, whether or not of such a nature or so placed as aforesaid;

(bc)sets in position in Wales any glue trap which is of such a nature and so placed as to be likely to catch any animal coming into contact with it;

(bd)uses in Wales for the purpose of killing or taking any animal any glue trap, whether or not of such a nature or so placed as aforesaid;;

(b)after subsection (7) insert—

(7ZA)For the purposes of paragraphs (bc) and (bd) of subsection (1), “animal means a vertebrate (other than a human).

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