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Game Licences Act 1860
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8 On change of gamekeeper, or Revocation of Deputation, &c. licence may be continued to successor. U.K.
Every such licence to kill game taken out on behalf of any such servant as aforesaid shall, upon the revocation of any such deputation or appointment, or on his quitting the service of the master by whom such licence shall have been taken out, be from thenceforth of no further effect as to the person named therein as such servant, or so deputed or appointed as aforesaid; but if within the year for which such licence was granted the said master, on the quitting of such servant, shall employ [F1another male servant] as gamekeeper in his stead, or the person by whom such deputation or appointment was made shall on the revocation thereof make a new deputation or appointment to any [F1male person in his service, or in the service of the same master] the officer by whom such licence was granted, or the proper officer appointed by the Commissioners in that behalf, shall renew such licence for the remainder of that year, on behalf of the fresh servant or the person so newly appointed, as the case may be, without payment of any further duty, by indorsing on such licence the name and place of abode of the said last-mentioned servant, or the person to whom such last-mentioned deputation or appointment shall have been granted, and declaring the same to be a renewed licence free of duty.
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F1Words substituted by Finance Act 1937 (c. 54,SIF 4:3,88:3), s. 5, Sch. 2
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C1The reference to Commissioners of Inland Revenue to be construed as a reference to Commissioners of Customs and Excise: Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2, SIF 40:1), Sch. 4 para. 1
C2S. 8 restricted (E.) (16.11.2000) by S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1
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