WILD FOWL PRESERVATION. 171 
8. The Home Office as to Great Britain, and the Lord Lieu- 
tenant as to Ireland, may, upon application of the justices in 
quarter sessions assembled of any county, extend or vary the 
time during which the killing, wounding, and taking of wild fowl 
is prohibited by this Act; the extension or variation of such time 
by the Home Office shall be made by order under the hand of one 
of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, after the making 
of which order the penalties imposed by this Act shall in such 
county apply only to offences committed during the time specified 
in such order; and the extension of such time by the Lord 
Lieutenant shall be made by order to be published in the Dublin 
Gazette, and a copy of the London Gazette or Dublin Gazette 
containing such order shall be evidence of the same having been 
made. 
4. Where any person shall be found offending against this Act, 
it shall be lawful for any person to require the person so offending 
to give his Christian name, surname, and place of abode; and in 
case the person offending shall, after being so required, refuse to 
give his real name or place of abode, or give an untrue name or 
place of abode, he shall be liable, on being convicted of any such 
offence before a justice of the peace or the sheriff, to forfeit and 
pay, in addition to the penalties imposed by section two, such sum 
of money not exceeding two pounds as to the convicting justice or 
sheriff shall seem meet, together with the costs of the conviction. 
5. One moiety of every penalty or forfeiture under this Act shall 
go and be paid to the person who shall inform and prosecute for 
the same, and the other moiety shall, in England, be paid to some 
one of the overseers of the poor, or to some other officer (as the 
convicting justice or justices may direct) of the parish, township, 
or place in which the offence shall have been committed, to be by 
such overseer or officer paid over to the use of the general rate of 
the county, riding, or division in which such parish, township, or 
place shall be situate, whether the same shall or shall not contri- 
bute to such general rate; and in Scotland, to the inspector of the 
poor of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, 
to be by such inspector paid over to the use of the funds for the 
relief of the poor in such parish; and if recovered in Ireland, such 
penalty shall be applied according to the provisions of the Fines 
Act (Ireland), 1851, or any Act amending the same. 
6. All offences mentioned in this Act, which shall be committed 
