THE GAME ACT, 1882 
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15. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed Prerogative of 
to extend to the taking away or abridging any power or prerogative Sterfered h with >t 
of Her Majesty, her heirs, or successors j and further, that it shall by thls Act * 
be lawful, as heretofore, for the Governor for the time being to Power to 
kill game subject to the provisions of this Act, and to grant in km game and 
any one year to three persons game licences without payment of Hcences^eariy 
duty free of dut, y- 
Sale op Game. 
1 6. No person, not having a game licence, shall sell or offer for Persons dealing 
sale any game, unless such person shall have obtained a licence to licensed. 10 ° e 
deal in game (in this Act referred to as a ' game-dealing licence '), 
and no person having a game licence shall sell or offer for sale any 
game to any person other than a person having a game-dealing 
licence. Any person acting in contravention of this section shall 
forfeit and pay for every head of game so sold or offered for sale a 
sum not exceeding two pounds. 
17. A game-dealing licence may be granted to any person being Game-deaiing 
a householder, or keeper of a shop or stall, but not to an inn- 
keeper, or person licensed to sell beer, wines, or spirits, by retail, 
nor to the owner, guard, or driver of any mail coach or car, or of 
any stage coach, stage waggon, van, or other public conveyance, 
nor to a carrier or higgler, nor to any person in the employment 
of any person to whom a game-dealing licence may not be lawfully 
granted. Any game-dealing licence held by any person to whom 
a game-dealing licence may not lawfully be granted shall be 
absolutely void. 
The holder of a game-dealing licence shall be empowered thereby 
to buy game at any place from any person who may lawfully sell 
game, and also to sell game at one house, shop, or stall only kept 
by him. 
18. Every person licensed to deal in game shall affix to some Name of dealer 
part of the outside of the front of his shop or stall, and shall keep outside his 
there a board having in clear and legible characters thereon his shop ' etc ' 
name in full, together with the following words, that is to say, 
1 Licensed to deal in game.' 
19. Every person licensed to deal in game shall keep a book, in Licensed dealers 
J r A in game to keep 
such form as the chairman of the Highway Board may from time a book, to be 
to time direct, in which shall be fairly entered from day to day inspection, 
all game which he shall purchase from any person, and stating 
