550 Practical Game Preserving. 



Section 6. As to trial of offences committed within the Admiralty jurisdiction, 

 or on county boundaries. 



Section 7. The Act to come into operation ist January, 1880, and repeal the 

 Sea Birds Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Viet., c. 17) ; the Wild Birds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 

 Viet., c. 78) ; and the Wild Fowl Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Viet., c. 29). 



Section 8. The Secretary of State in Great Britain, or Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland, may extend or vary the close time on application of the justices of 

 quarter sessions. 



Section 9. Act not to extend to St. Kilda ; and other localities may be 

 exempted on application, as in the preceding section. 



There is a very useful little work on this Act published at 

 The Field office, which puts into a clear and concise form the 

 effects which this Act brings about in regard to wild birds. 



(9.) THE GROUND GAME ACT, 1880. 



Section I. E very occupier of land shall have, as incidental to and inseparable 

 from his occupation of the land, the right to kill and take ground game thereon, 

 concurrently with any other person who may be entitled to kill and take ground 

 game on the same land ; provided that the right conferred on the occupier by this 

 section shall be subject to the following limitations : 



1. The occupier shall kill and take ground game only himself or by persons 



duly authorised by him in writing : 



(a) The occupier himself and one other person authorised in writing 



by such occupier shall be the only persons entitled under this 

 Act to kill ground game with firearms. 



(b) No person shall be authorised by the occupier to kill or take 



ground game, except members of his household resident on the 

 land in his occupation, persons in his ordinary service on such 

 land, and any one other person bonk fide employed by him for 

 reward in the taking and destruction of ground game. 



(c) Every person so authorised by the occupier, on demand by any 



person having a concurrent right to kill and take the ground 

 game on the land, or any person authorised by him in writing 

 to make such demand, shall produce to the person so demand- 

 ing the document by which he is authorised, and in default he 

 shall not be deemed to be an authorised person. 



2. A person shall not be deemed to be an occupier of land for the purposes 



of this Act by reason of his having a right of common over such lands, 

 or by reason of an occupation for the purpose of grazing or pasturage 

 of sheep, cattle or horses, for not more than nine months. 



3. In the case of moorlands and uninclosed lands (not being arable lands), 





