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Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928

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3Register to be kept by holder of licence to deal in game.N.I.

(1)From and after the commencement of this section every holder of a licence to deal in game …F1, shall keep or cause to be kept in the premises specified therein a register, in the prescribed form, of all purchases, receipts, sales, and disposals in any manner, of gameF2 by him, and shall enter or cause to be entered in such register forthwith the prescribed particulars (which shall not include any particulars as to price) of such purchases, receipts, sales and disposals.

(2)Any person authorised in that behalf by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary of a rank not lower than sergeant, may inspect any register kept in pursuance of this section; and it shall be the duty of the licence-holder and of every person keeping such register to produce for inspection by such authorised person or member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary such register, and also all gameF2 on the premises, together with all invoices, consignment notes, receipts, and other documents (including copies thereof where the originals are not available) which may be required to verify any entry in such register, and to allow such authorised person or member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to take copies of such register or documents or extracts therefrom.

(3)Any holder of a licence to deal in game who fails to comply with any provision of this section, and any person who obstructs any person entitled under this section to inspect any register or document in the making of such inspection, or who wilfully or negligently makes or causes to be made in such register any entry which is false or misleading in any material particular, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

[F3(3A)A register shall be kept until the end of the period of three years beginning with the day on which the last entry was made in it, and any such documents as are mentioned in subsection (1) shall be kept until the end of the period of three years beginning with the date of the entry to which they relate.]

Subs. (4) rep. by 1953 c. 24 (NI)

(5)For the purposes of this section—

(a)the expression “prescribed” means prescribed by the Ministry of Home Affairs;

(b)a demand for inspection of a register or other document shall be deemed to have been duly made to the licence-holder if such demand is made verbally on the premises of the licence-holder to any agent, employee, servant, or member of the family of, the licence-holder thereon.

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