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Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Imprisonment 2 of 4 obligations carry a fine up to £200. 2 carry different penalties — flagged in the list below.

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Any Person3 Occupier1

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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Occupier — also bound by 246 other Acts

The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021 47 duties

Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals (England) (No. 2) Order 2006 46 duties

The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 34 duties

Highways Act 1980 23 duties

Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015 19 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.003 Sale of birds of game Imprisonment

Sell or possess illegally-taken game birdsAny Person

s.012 Where the landlord, &c. has the right to the game, in exclusion of the occupier, the occupier shall be liable to a penalty for killing it. Prosecution

Occupier pursues or kills game reserved to landlordOccupier

Fine up to £200

s.024 Penalty for destroying or taking the Eggs of Game, &c. Prosecution

Take or destroy eggs of game birds without permissionAny Person

Fine up to £200

s.030 Penalty on persons trespassing in the day-time upon lands in search of game. Where the Occupier of the Land, not being entitled to the Game, allows any Person to kill it, the Party entitled to the Game may enforce the Penalty. Prosecution

Trespass on land in search of gameAny Person

Unlimited fine

46 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.002 What shall be deemed Game.

s.003 Days and Seasons during which Game shall not be killed. Penalty for laying poison to kill game.

s.004 † Possession of Game illegal after Ten Days in Dealers, and Forty Days in other Persons, from the Expiration of the Season.

s.005 This Act not to affect the existing Laws respecting Game Certificates.

s.006 Every certificated person may kill Game, subject to the Law of Trespass. Proviso as to Game-keepers.

s.007 Under existing leases the landlord shall have the game except in certain cases.

s.008 This Act not to affect any existing or future agreements respecting game, nor any rights of manor, forest, chase, or warren.

s.009 This Act not to affect any of His Majesty’s Forest Rights, &c.

s.010 Not to affect any Cattlegates or Right of Common. Lord of manor to have the game on the wastes.

s.011 Landlord, having the Game, may authorize others to kill it.

s.013 Lords of manors may appoint gamekeepers. Powers of gamekeepers of manors.

s.014 Lords of Manors may grant Deputations.

s.015 Regulations respecting appointment of gamekeepers in Wales.

s.016 All appointments of gamekeepers to be registered with the clerk of the peace.

s.017 Certificated Persons may sell Game to licensed Dealers. Proviso as to Gamekeepers.

s.018 Justices to hold a special session yearly for granting licences to persons to deal in game. Dealers in game to put up a board.

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s.021 Proviso as to Partners.

s.022 Licences When to become Void.

s.023 Penalty for killing game without a certificate. Penalty to be cumulative.

s.025 Penalty for selling Game without Licence, and on certificated Persons selling to unlicensed Persons.

s.026 Exceptions as to innkeepers.

s.027 Penalty on persons buying game except from licensed dealers.

s.028 Penalty on licensed dealers buying game from uncertificated persons, or otherwise offending.

s.029 As to buying and selling Game by the Servants of a licensed Dealer.

s.031 Trespassers in search of game may be required to quit the land, and to tell their names and abodes, and in case of refusal may be arrested. Penalty. Persons arrested must be discharged unless brought before a justice within 12 hours.

s.031 Powers of constables in relation to trespassers.

s.032 Penalty on Persons found armed using Violence, &c.

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s.034 What to be deemed daytime.

s.035 The Provisions as to trespassers not to apply to persons hunting, &c.

s.036 Game may be taken from Trespassers not delivering up the same when demanded.

s.037 Application of penalties for offences against this Act.

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s.040 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.041 Time for Proceedings, and Mode of enforcing the Appearance of Offenders.

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s.044 Appeal to quarter sessions.

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s.046 This Act not to preclude actions for trespass, but no double proceedings for the same trespass.

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s.048 Act not to extend to Scotland or Ireland.

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Game Act 1831

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