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Practical Game Preserving. 



shall affect any special right of killing or taking ground game to which any person 

 other than the landlord, lessor or occupier may have become entitled before the 

 passing of this Act, by virtue of any franchise, charter, or Act of Parliament. 



Section 6. No person having a right of killing ground game under this Act or 

 otherwise shall use any firearms for the purpose of killing ground game between 

 the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement^ of the last 

 hour before sunrise, and no such person shall, for the purpose of killing ground 

 game, employ spring traps except in rabbit holes, nor employ poison ; and any 

 person acting in contravention of this section shall, on summary conviction be 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds. 



Section 7. Where a person who is not in occupation of land has the sole right 

 of killing game thereon (with the exception of such right of killing and talcing 

 ground game as is by this Act conferred on the occupier, as incident to and 

 inseparable from his occupation), such person shall, for the purpose of any Act 

 authorising the institution of legal proceedings by the owner of an exclusive right 

 to game, have the same authority to institute such proceedings as if he were such 

 exclusive owner, without prejudice nevertheless to the right of the occupier 

 enforced by this Act. 



Section 8. For the purposes of this Act, the words " ground game " mean 

 hares and rabbits. 



Section 9. A person acting in accordance with this Act shall not thereby be 

 subject to any proceedings or penalties in pursuance of any law or statute. 



Section 10. Nothing in this Act shall authorise the killing or taking of ground 

 game on any days or seasons, or by any methods, prohibited by any Act of Parlia- 

 ment in force at the time of the passing of this Act. 



Section n. This Act maybe cited for all purposes as "The Ground Game 

 Act, 1880." 



It is not consistent with our prescribed scope to discuss 

 the peculiar terms and aims of this Act, and for further 

 information as to its bearing must refer our readers to the 

 small work on it published at The Field office. To practical 

 men the conditions under which the occupier has to effect 

 the capture of the coneys and hares, which he may find 

 destroying his crops, must prove very mirth-provoking. We 

 expect to see this Act amended, in more than one respect, 

 before long. 



