Appendix. 553 



GAME ACTS APPLYING TO ENGLAND AND WALES. 



(to.) THE ENGLISH GAME ACT (i & 2 Will. IV., c. 32). 

 Section i repeals old statutes. 



Section 2. The word " game" to include hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, 

 heath or moor game, black-game and bustards. 



Section 3 enacts that any person killing or taking game, or using any gun, 

 dog, net, or other engine or instrument for that purpose, on Sunday or Christmas- 

 day, is subject on conviction by two justices, to a penalty not exceeding ^5 and 

 costs, and prohibits the taking of game as under : 



Partridges . . . . . . . .from ist February to ist September. 



Pheasants ........ ist February to ist October. 



Black Game (generally) . . . . loth December to 2Oth August. 



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Grouse .......... ,, ioth December to I2th August. 



Bustards ........ ist March to ist September. 



Penalty to be^i for every head of game taken or killed during these close times; 

 10 for laying poison for the purpose of killing game. 



Section 4. Any person licensed to deal in game having possession of or dealing 

 in game after ten days from the expiration of the season, or any unlicensed person 

 dealing in game after- ten days, or having possession of any game (except such as 

 are kept in a mew or breeding place) within forty days from the expiry of the 

 season, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ^i for every head of game. 



Section 5. Nothing in this Act shall in any way affect the existing laws 

 relating to game certificates. 



Section 6. Game certificates (i.e., licences to kill game) qualify persons to take 

 and kill game (subject to trespass). Gamekeeper's licence to hold good only 

 within the limits of his appointment as gamekeeper. Infringement of this renders 

 him liable to be proceeded against as if he had no game certificate whatever. 



Section 7. Under existing leases the game to be the property of the landlord, 

 except in cases where, previous to the passing of this Act, it has been ceded to 

 the tenant, by lease or agreement. 



Section 8. Act not to affect any existing or future agreements respecting 

 game, nor any rights of manor, forest, chase or warren, nor reservations in private 

 Acts. 



Section 9. Act not to affect any royal forest rights, nor give to lords of manor 

 any additional rights not possessed by them before the passing of the Act. 



Section 10 enacts that the game on waste lands shall still remain the pro- 

 perty of the lord of the manor, and that the Act shall not affect any cattle-gates 

 or right of common. 



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