GAME LAWS AND LICENCES 
Section 11 provides that should any holder of a licence be convicted of 
any offence under the principal Game Act, or the Scottish Game Act 
(2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 68) his licence shall be forfeited. As to this it may 
be observed that as neither of the Statutes just referred to applies to 
Ireland, this forfeiture does not extend to licences in that country. 
THE REVENUE ACT, 1861 
24 & 25 Viet., c. 91 
The object in passing this Act 'svas to remedy an omission in the Game 
Licences Act, 1860 (last quoted), and accordingly the principal enactment 
is the imposition by Section 17 of a penalty upon any person who, having 
obtained a licence to deal in game from the District Council (formerly 
from the magistrates), shall proceed to act upon it before he has also 
obtained an excise licence authorizing him to do so. 
THE LARCENY ACT, 1861 
24 & 25 Viet., c. 96 
This Act, so far as it concerns our present purpose, relates chiefly to 
the taking of hares or rabbits in a warren at night, which is to be deemed 
a misdemeanour, for the commission of which a penalty of £5 is imposed 
by Section 17 ; and by a subsequent section (Sect. 103) power is given to 
apprehend the offender. 
THE POACHING PREVENTION ACT, 1862 
25 &26 Viet., c. 114 
The first section of this Act defines “ game,” which would seem to be 
hardly needed, since game had been already defined in two previous 
statutes, and the terms are practically identical. 
Section 2 authorizes any constable in any highway or public place to 
search anyone whom he has good cause to suspect of coming from any 
land where he may have been unlawfully in pursuit of game. 
Section 6 gives any one who may be convicted under this Act the right 
to appeal to the next General or Quarter Sessions. 
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