F2PART IVGAME AND GAME DEALERS' LICENCES

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Amendments (Textual)
F2

Pt. IV (ss. 27-42) ceased to have effect (13.6.2011) by virtue of Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), ss. 35, 40(1); S.R. 2011/215, art. 2

Licences to kill or take game

29Penalty for killing or taking game without a game licence.

F41

Save as provided by this section, any person who—

a

kills or takes any game; or

b

uses any dog, gun, net or engine for the killing or taking of game;

without having in force a game licence shall, in addition to any other offence he may thereby commit, be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50.

2

This section shall not operate so as to require any member of the Royal Family to take out a game licence.

3

The following persons or any of them shall not, by reason only of being so engaged, be guilty of an offence under this section—

a

any person engaged in aiding or assisting in the killing or taking of game by the order and under the immediate direction of, and for the use only of, a person who has in force a game licence, where any dog, gun, net or other engine, then being lawfully used, belongs to the licence-holder;

b

any person engaged in the killing or taking of snipe or wild duck;

F3c

any occupier of any land, or any person authorised by him, engaged in the killing or taking of ground game on that land;

d

any person engaged in the killing or pursuing of hares by coursing with greyhounds or by hunting with beagles or other hounds;

e

any person engaged in the killing or pursuing of deer by hunting with hounds;

f

any owner or ocupier of any inclosed land, or any person acting by his direction or permission, engaged in the killing or taking of deer on such land.