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THE GAME ACT, 1882 
Licence not 
required for 
dog used for 
guidance of 
blind person. 
Production 
of licences. 
New licence not 
necessary for 
current year on 
transfer of dog 
by sale or gift. 
Any person acting in contravention of this section shall forfeit 
and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds. 
Every person in whose custody, charge, or possession, or in 
whose house or premises any dog shall be found or seen shall be 
deemed to be the person who shall keep such dog unless the 
contrary be proved ; and the owner or master of hounds shall be 
deemed to be the person keeping the same. 
Nothing in this section contained shall render a licence necessary 
in the case of a dog kept and used solely by a blind person for his 
or her guidance, or render such person liable to any penalty in 
resT)ect of a dog so kept or used ; nor in the case of a dog under 
the age of six months, the proof of which age shall, in case of a 
prosecution for a penalty, lie upon the defendant ; nor in the case 
of a dog brought to and remaining in this Isle for a period of 
fourteen days only in any one year. 
28. If any person who shall have taken out a dog licence shall 
not produce and deliver such licence to be examined and read by 
any surveyor-general or parochial surveyor of highways, or by any 
constable, or by any other person having a dog licence, within a 
reasonable time after any such officer or person shall request the 
production of the same, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five 
pounds. 
(29. When any dog shall be transferred by sale or gift by its 
owner to any other person, it shall not be necessary for such 
person to take out a new licence for such dog if there shall be in 
force a licence for the same for the then current year, provided 
such person shall produce to a person authorized to issue dog 
licences such licence, and procure to be made an endorsement 
thereon that the person to whom such dog described in the licence 
had been sold or given is then the owner thereof, which endorse- 
ment shall be made without any fee being payable therefor.) 1 
Game and gun 
licences to be 
issued at offices 
of the Board. 
Licences and Duties. 2 
30. Game licences, game-dealing licences, and gun licences shall 
be issued at the office of the Board, and shall be signed on behalf 
of the Board by their secretary. A register of each description of 
1 Repealed by the Highway Act, 1889. 
2 By the Highway Act, 1889, Section 40, the provisions of this Act as to licences 
are to be applicable throughout this Isle, and each parochial surveyor shall for 
any purpose connected with licences and duties be the parochial surveyor of any 
part of a town, village, or local government district within his parish. 
