Publication - FOI/EIR release

Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949, criminal proceedings: FOI release

Published: 3 April 2019
Directorate: Safer Communities Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change, Law and order, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/201900000641
Date received: 8 March 2019
Date responded: 28 April 2019

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

You asked for information on criminal proceedings since 2014, where people were charged with breaching the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949.

Response

Failure to comply with notices issued under The Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949 would be prosecuted under sections 5 and 17 of this Act. The latest available information from the Scottish Government Criminal Proceedings database is for the financial year 2017-18 and this shows that there were no prosecutions during the period 2013-14 to 2017-18.

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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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