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GAME ACT 1831

GAME ACT 1831 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Laws in England relative to Game.{1}
[5th October 1831]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1888 (No. 2)

S.1 rep. by SLR 1874

GAME ACT 1831 - SECT 2
Definition of ""game'' under this Act.

2. The word "game" shall for all the purposes of this Act be
deemed to include hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor
game, black game ....

GAME ACT 1831 - SECT 4
Penalty on dealers in game buying, selling or possessing birds or
game after expiration of season for killing, and on other persons
buying or selling birds or possessing them.

4. If any person licensed to deal in game ... shall buy or sell,
or knowingly have in his house, shop, stall, possession, or control,
any bird of game [after the expiration of five days] from the
respective days in each year on which it shall become unlawful to
kill or take such birds of game respectively as aforesaid; or if
any person, not being licensed to deal in game ... shall buy or
sell any bird of game [after the expiration of five days] from the
respective days in each year on which it shall become unlawful to
kill or take such birds of game respectively as aforesaid, ...
every such person shall, on conviction of any such offence before
two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay for every head of game
so bought or sold, or found in his house, shop, possession, or
control, such sum of money, not exceeding one pound, as to the
convicting justices shall seem meet, together with the costs of the
conviction.

Ss.1722 rep. by 1860 c.90 s.1; 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4

GAME ACT 1831 - SECT 24
Penalty for taking or destroying the eggs of game, wild fowl, &c.,
or having eggs so taken in possession.

24. If any person not having the right of killing the game upon
any land, nor having permission from the person having such right,
shall wilfully take out of the nest or destroy in the nest upon
such land the eggs of ... any swan, wild duck, teal, or widgeon,
or shall knowingly have in his house, shop, possession, or control,
any such eggs so taken, every such person shall, on conviction
thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay for every
egg so taken or destroyed, or so found in his house, shop,
possession, or control, such sum of money, not exceeding [25p], as
to the said justices shall seem meet, together with the costs of
the conviction.

Ss.2529 rep. by 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4. S.37 rep. by 1954 c.9
(NI) s.29 sch.7. Ss.3840 rep. by 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4

GAME ACT 1831 - SECT 41
Prosecutions to be commenced within three months.

41. The prosecution for every offence punishable upon summary
conviction by virtue of this Act shall be commenced within three
calendar months after the commission of the offence ....

Ss.4245 rep. by 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4. S.47 rep. by 1893 c.61
s.2 sch.

GAME ACT 1831 - SECT 48
Extent of Act.

48. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to ... Ireland.

Schedule (A) rep. by 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4. Schedule (B) rep.
by SLR 1874






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