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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



THE NEW GAME ACT. 



An Act to repeal the Duties on Game Certificates and Certifi- 

 cates to deal in Game, and to impose in lieu thereof Duties 

 on Excise Licences and Certificates for the like Purposes. — 

 [ISth August, I860.] 



Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by 

 and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and 

 Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem- 

 bled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



L From and after the passing of this Act the respective 

 duties of assessed tiixes now payable under the several Acts of 

 Parliament in that behalf in respect of certificates to kill 

 game in Great Britain, and to deal in game in England, and 

 all the provisions, rules, and directions for assessing, charging, 

 and collecting any of the said duties contaiued in Schedule 

 (L) of the Act passed in the Fifty-second Year of King George 

 the Third, chapter ninety-three, and also the duties now pay- 

 able in Ireland under the Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year 

 of King George the Third, chapter fifty-six, in respect of every 

 certificate of having registered a deputation as a gamekeeper, 

 and iu respect of e»ery certificate to authorize any person, not 

 being a gamekeeper, to kill game in Ireland, and also the 

 nineteenth and twentieth sections of the Act passed in the 

 First and Second Yean of King William the Fourth, chapter 

 thirty-two, shall respectively cease and determine, and the 

 same are hereby repealed, except as to any arrears of the said 

 duties respectivelj^ and as to any penalties incurred before 

 the commencement of this Act. 



II. In lieu of the duties hereby repealed there shall be 

 granted, charged, and paid for and upon the several licences 

 and certificates to take or kill game, and licences to deal in 

 game herein-after mentioned, the respective duties or sums of 

 money berein^after expressed or denoted ; (that is to say,) 



£ B. d. 



For a licence in Great Britain or a certificate in 

 Ireland to be taken out by every person who 

 shall use any dog, gun, net, or other engine for 

 the purpose of taking or killing any game what- 

 ever, or any woodcock, snipe, quail, or landrail, 

 or any conies, or any deer, or shall take or kill 

 by any means whatever or shall assist in any 

 manner in the taking or killing by any means 

 whatever of any game, or any woodcock, snipe, 

 quail, or landrail, or any coney, or any deer : 

 If such licence or certificate shall be taken out 

 after the fifth day of April and before the first 

 day of November, 

 To expire on the fifth day of April in the fol- 

 lowing year 3 Q 



To expire on the thirty-first day of October 

 in the same year in which the licence or 



certificate shall be taken out 2 



If such licence or certificate shall be taken out on 



or after the first day of November, 



To expire on the fifth day of April following 2 



Provided always, that any person having the right to 



kill game on any lands in England or Scotland 



shall be entitled to take out a licence to authorize 



any servant for whom he shall be chargeable to the 



duty of assessed taxes as a gamekeeper, to kill 



game upon the same lands, upon payment of the 



dutyof 2 



And for every lici nee to deal in game in England, 

 Scotland, or Ireknd, to be granted under this 

 -^<=' 2 



III. The duties by this act granted shall be under the 

 mana|ement of the <Jommissioners of Inland Eevenue, and 

 shall be deemed to be excise duties, and all the powers, 

 provisions clauses, regulations, and directions contained in 

 any act relating to excise duties or to penalties under excise 

 acts, and now oi- hereafter iii force, shall respectively be of 

 fulHorce and effect With respect to the duties by this act 



granted, and to tlie penalties hereby imposed, so far as the 

 same are or may be applicable, and shall be observed, ap- 

 plied, and enforced for and iu the collecting, securing, 

 and recovering of the said duties and penalties hereby 

 gi'anted and imposed respectively, and otherwise in relation 

 thereto, so far as the same shall be consistent with and not 

 superseded by the express provisions of this act, as fully 

 and effectually as if the same had been herein repeated and 

 specially enacted in this act with reference to the said last- 

 mentioned duties and penalties respectively. 



IV. Every person before he shall in Great Britain take, 

 kill, or pursue, or aid or assist Lii any manner in the taking, 

 killing, or pursuing by any means whatever, or use any dog, 

 gun, net, or other engine for the puqiose of taking, killing, 

 or pursuing any game, or any woodcock, snipe, quail, or 

 landrail, or any coney, or any deer, shall take out a proper 

 licence to kill game under this act, and pay the duty hereby 

 made payable tliereon ; and if any person shall do any such 

 act as hereinbefore mentioned in Great Britain without 

 having duly taken out and having in force such licence as 

 aforesaid, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty pounds. 



V. The following exceptions and exemptions from the 

 duties and provisions of this act are hereby made and 

 granted ; (that is to say,) 



EXCEPTIONS. 



1. The taking of woodcocks and snipes with nets or 



springes in Great Britain. 



2. The taking or destroying of conies in Great Britain by 

 the proprietor of any wan-en or of any inclosed ground 

 wliatever, or by the tenant of lands, either by himself 

 or by his direction or permission. 



". The pursuing and killing of hares respectively by 

 coursing with greyhounds, or by hunting with beagles 

 or other hounds. 



4. The pursuing and killing of deer by hunting with 

 hounds. 



5. The taking and killing of deer in any inclosed lands 



by the owner or occupier of such lauds, or by his 

 direction or permission. 



EXEMPTIONS. 



1. Any of the Pioyal Family. 



'ri. Any person appointed a gamekeeper on behalf of her 



Majesty by the Commissioners other Majesty's Woods. 



Forests, and Land Revenues, under the authority of 



any act of Parhnieut relating to the land revenues of 



the Crown. 



3. Any person aiding or assisting in the taking or killing 



of any game, or any woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, 

 or coney, or any deer, in the company or presence, 

 and for the use of another person who shall have duly 

 obtained, according to the directions of this Act, and 

 in his own right, a licence to kill game, and who shall 

 by virtue of such licence then and there use his own 

 dog, gun, net, or other engine for the taking or killing 

 of such game, woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, coney, 

 or deer, and who shall not act therein by virtue of any 

 deputation or ajipointment. 



4. And, as regards the killing of hares only, all persons 



who, under the provisions of the two several Acts, 

 lltli and 13th Victoria, chapter 29 and chapter 30 re- 

 spectively, are authorized to kill hares in England and 

 Scotland respectively, without obtaining an annual 

 game certificate. 



VI. Provided always. That nothing herein contained 

 shall extend to repeal, alter, or affect any of the provisions 

 of the said two several Acts of the Eleventh and Twelfth 

 Years of her Majesty, chapter 29 and chapter 30, further 

 than that the term " Game Certificate " in the said Acts 

 respectively used shall be construed to mean a licence to 

 kill game ander the provisions of this Act, and shall be so 

 read accordingly ; and that the term "Game Certificate" 

 used iu the Act of the First and Second Years of King 



