The Theft Act 1607 (c.6) is an Act of the Parliament of Scotland.
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Title
"Act Anent woddis parkis planting dowcattis et cetera " (An Act concerning woods, parks, planting, doocots, etc.)
Content
The Act was subject to six separate repeals of words by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act 1964 (c.80). Its form prior to those repeals was:
(Note that this text is reconstructed from the text on SLD (below) and the repeals (below). Because the 1964 Act does not quote the repealed words in full, the passages marked "... ? ..." cannot be reconstructed by this method)
The 1964 Act repealed the following words, with effect from 31 July 1964:
Following the repeals, and until 2002, the Act looked like this:
Repeals and amendments
The Act was amended by the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 which removed the words "and fisches in propir stankis and loches" thus leaving only bees ("Beis") as the subjects of this Act.