The Scottish Allotment Diary

The following query was sent as an email to the SAGS committee:

Do you have any advice for plot holders to remain on the right side of
the law regarding the recent legislation on knives? Knives are an essential tool to horticulture yet I’d expect an allotment site is likely classified a public place.

The reports I’ve heard are very strict in being locked up no questions asked for possession.

If anyone has any thoughts on this subject we’d be really grateful if they could be passed on to us via the comments section. My own immediate thoughts are that (a) if you don’t keep your tools in a shed on your allotment but need to take them through the streets each time, are you in even bigger problems? but (b) isn’t there something about ‘legitimate use’ in the legislation?