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the occupier and the persons authorised by him shall exercise the 

 rights conferred by this section, only from the eleventh day of 

 December in one year until the thirty-first day of March in the next 

 year, both inclusive ; but this provision shall not apply to detached 

 portions of moorlands or uninclosed lands adjoining arable lands, 

 where such detached portions of moorlands or uninclosed lands are 

 less than twenty-five acres in extent. 



Section 2. Where the occupier of land is entitled otherwise than in pursuance 

 of this Act to kill and take ground game thereon, if he shall give to any other 

 person a title to kill and take such ground game, he shall nevertheless retain and 

 have, as incident to and inseparable from such occupation, the same right to kill 

 and take ground game as is declared by Section i of this Act. Save as aforesaid, 

 but subject as in Section 6, hereafter mentioned, the occupier may exercise any 

 other or more extensive right which he may possess in respect of ground game or 

 other game, in the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had not 

 passed. 



Section 3. Every agreement, condition or arrangement which purports to 

 divest or alienate the right of the occupier as declared, given and reserved to him 

 by this Act, or which gives to such occupier any advantage in consideration of 

 his forbearing to exercise such right, or imposes upon him any disadvantage in 

 consequence of his exercising such right, shall be void. 



Section 4. The occupier and the persons duly authorised by him as aforesaid 

 shall not be required to obtain a licence to kill game for the purpose of killing 

 and taking ground game on land in the occupation of such occupier, and the 

 occupier shall have the same power of selling any ground game so killed by him, 

 or the persons authorised by him, as if he had a licence to kill game, provided 

 that nothing in this Act exempt any persons from the provisions of "The Gun 

 Licence Act, 1870." 



Section 5. Where, at the date of the passing of this Act, the right to take and 

 kill ground game on any land is vested by lease, contract of tenancy or other 

 contract bonbfide made for valuable consideration in. some person other than the 

 occupier, the occupier shall not be entitled under this Act, until the determination 

 of that contract, to kill and take ground game on any such land, and in Scotland 

 when the right to kill and take ground game is vested by operation of law or 

 otherwise in some person other than the occupier, the occupier shall not be 

 entitled by virtue of this Act to kill or take ground game during the currency of 

 any lease or contract of tenancy under which he holds at the passing of this Act, 

 or during the currency of any contract made bond fide for valuable consideration 

 before the passing of this Act, whereby any other person is entitled to kill and 

 take ground game on the land. For the purposes of this Act, a tenancy from 

 year to year, or a tenancy at will, shall be deemed to determine, at the time when 

 such tenancy would by law become determinable, if notice or warning to determine 

 the same were given at the date of the passing of this Act. Nothing in this Act 



