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actually committed in that county or place; and in any information 
or conviction for any such offence, the offence may be averred to 
have been committed ‘‘on the high seas.” And in Scotland any 
offence committed against this Act on the sea coast or at sea 
beyond the ordinary jurisdiction of any sheriff, justice or justices 
of the peace, shall be held to have been committed in any county 
abutting on such sea coast or adjoining such sea, and may be 
tried and punished accordingly. 
Where any offence under this Act is committed in or upon any 
waters forming the boundary between any two counties, districts of 
quarter sessions, or petty sessions, such offence may be prosecuted 
before any justices of the peace or sheriff in either of such counties 
or districts. 
7. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of 
January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and on the 
same day the Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in 
the thirty-second and thirty-third years of the reign of Her 
present Majesty, entitled ‘‘An Act for the preservation of Sea 
Birds,” and the Act passed in the session of Parliament holden 
in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of the reign of Her 
present Majesty, entitled ““An Act for the protection of certain 
wild birds during the breeding season,” and the Act passed in 
the session of Parliament holden in the thirty-ninth and fortieth 
years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled “An Act for 
the preservation of Wild Fowl,” shall be repealed. 
8. One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State as to 
Great Britain, and the Lord Lieutenant as to Ireland, may, upon 
application of the justices in quarter sessions assembled of any 
county, by order extend or vary the time during which the killing 
and taking of wild birds or any of them is prohibited by this Act; 
after the making of which order the penalties imposed by this 
Act in respect of such wild birds shall in such county apply only to 
offences committed during the time specified in such order; and the 
order for the extension or variation of such time shall be published, 
if made by the Secretary of State, in the London Gazette, or if 
made by the Lord Lieutenant, in the Dublin Gazette, and a copy of 
the London Gazette or Dublin Gazette containing any order made 
under this Act shall be evidence of the same having been made. 
9. The operation of this Act shall not extend to the Island of 
Saint Kilda, and it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty’s 
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