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THE GAME ACT, 1882 
Power to search 
suspected 
premises. 
Pheasant and 
grouse may not 
be destroyed 
until 1885. 
constable or peace-officer shall, in such case, apply to some justice 
for a summons citing such person to appear before a high-bailiff or 
two justices ; and if such high-bailiff or justices shall be satisfied 
that such person shall have obtained such game by unlawfully 
going on any land in search or pursuit of game, or shall have used 
any such article or thing as aforesaid for unlawfully killing or taking 
game, or shall have been accessory thereto, or if such person have in 
his possession any net, spring, trap, or wire for unlawfully killing or 
taking game, such person shall, on being convicted thereof, forfeit 
and pay any sum not exceeding two pounds, and shall forfeit such 
game, guns, part of guns, nets, and engines, or other instruments 
as aforesaid, and the same shall be by the high-bailiff or justices 
before whom the case shall be heard be directed to be sold or 
destroyed; and no person who, by direction of a high-bailiff or 
justices, in writing, shall sell any game so seized shall be liable 
to any penalty for such sale ; and if no conviction takes place the 
game or any such article or thing aforesaid, shall be restored to 
the person from whom it has been seized. 
13. Whenever it shall be made to appear on oath and in 
writing that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any net, hair 
pipe, trap, snare, or other thing used for the unlawful killing or 
taking game is concealed in any dwelling-house, outhouse, garden, 
yard, or other place or places, it shall be lawful for any justice to 
issue a search warrant for the discovery of such nets, hair pipes, 
traps, snares, or other things as aforesaid; and, if so found, the 
same shall be forfeited, and the person in whose possession the 
same shall be found shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 
five pounds. 
14. It shall not be lawful for any person whomsoever under 
any pretence, or at any season, to take, kill, or destroy, any 
pheasant, black game, moorfowl, heathfowl, or grouse until the 
prescribed time, namely until the first of October, one thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-five ; and if any person in the meantime 
shall unlawfully take, kill, or destroy, or have in his or her 
possession (except for the purposes of breeding or preserving), any 
pheasant, black game, moorfowl, heathfowl, or grouse, or any 
pheasant, black game, moorfowl, heathfowl, or grouse which he 
cannot show has been imported as dead game into this Island, such 
persons so offending shall for every offence forfeit and pay a sum not 
exceeding five pounds. 
