http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/2-3/43Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939An Act to make provision for the prevention of damage by rabbits; and to amend the law relating to the use of poison and the use of spring traps above ground for the purpose of killing hares or rabbits.1976-03-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-261993-11-05 1939 c.43An Act to make provision for the prevention of damage by rabbits; and to amend the law relating to the use of poison and the use of spring traps above ground for the purpose of killing hares or rabbits.[28th July 1939]Part I1Part II4A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section eight of the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, by reason only that he uses poisonous gas in a rabbit hole, or places in a rabbit hole a substance which, by evaporation or in contact with moisture generates poisonous gas.51. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2So much of section six of the Ground Game Act, 1880, as provides that no person having a right to kill ground game shall, for the purpose of killing ground game . . . employ poison shall cease to have effect.Part III61This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act, 1939.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3This Act shall not extend to Scotland, to Northern Ireland or to the administrative county of London.For the extent of this Act see S. 6(3)Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3Ss. 1–3 repealed by Agriculture Act 1947 (c. 48), Sch. 13S. 4 applied by Agriculture Act 1947 (c. 48), s. 981911 c. 27. S. 5(1) repealed by Pests Act 1954 (c. 68), Sch.1880 c. 47. Words repealed by Pests Act 1954 (c. 68), Sch.S. 6(2) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt.II