THE GAME ACT, 1882 
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Protection of Game. 
4. No person shall carry about a gun for the purpose of killing No person to 
game, nor use any greyhound, hound, or other dog for the purpose without licence, 
of coursing, hunting, or otherwise endeavouring to capture, injure, 
or destroy any game, nor be in pursuit of game at any time unless 
he shall have obtained a licence to kill game, in this Act referred 
to as a 'game licence.' 
Any person acting in contravention of this section without such Penalty, 
licence first had and obtained shall on conviction thereof before 
a deemster, high-bailiff, or two justices forfeit and pay a sum not 
exceeding five pounds. 
5. Any person carrying a gun (except on a public highway) and persons having 
having with him at the same time any dog, shall for the purposes gu n h to°be dnd 
of this Act be deemed to be in pursuit of game; but the term purTuitS gam". 
' pursuit of game ' shall not apply to the case of persons who with- 
out guns shall be following any pack of hounds or any greyhounds 
or other dogs which shall be in charge of and under the manage- 
ment of a person licensed to kill game, nor to any person in pursuit 
of rabbits or vermin on land in his own occupation, or on the lands 
of another with the previous written consent of the person entitled 
to give the same. 
6. Where the landlord or lessor of any land has reserved to him- Landlord 
self, or to himself, his heirs, and assigns, by any deed or writing, game on lands 
the exclusive right to the game on such land, then such persons prose S cute nay 
respectively, for the purpose of prosecuting trespassers in pursuit tres P assers ' 
of game on such land without the consent of such persons respec- 
tively, shall be deemed the legal occupiers of the said land ; and 
any one who shall enter or be upon the said land in search of or 
in pursuit of game, without the consent of such persons respectively, 
shall be deemed a trespasser. 
7. Any owner or occupier of any lands, or any person authorized Trespass 
in writing to shoot or sport over any lands, whether exclusively or 
otherwise, may serve upon any other person a notice, either written 
or printed, or partly written or partly printed, against trespassing 
in pursuit of game upon such lands, such notice shall sufficiently 
specify the lands to which it is intended to refer, shall be duly 
dated, and shall be signed by the person giving the same, and if 
at any time during twelve months immediately following the 
service of such notice, the person upon whom it has been served 
