you need a license
Capture and release [s.8, s14 Deer Act, Animal
Welfare Act 2006, Schedule 9 of Wildlife and
Countryside Act 1981 as amended]
For the purposes of removing deer from one
area to another or to take deer alive for scientifi c
or educational purposes, Natural England or the
Countryside Council for Wales may issue [and revoke
at any time] a licence allowing a person and anyone
acting with that person’s written authority to take
deer using a net, trap or stupefying drug delivered by
any means authorised by the licence and exempting
them from close season and night re