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GROUND GAME (AMENDMENT) ACT 1906

GROUND GAME (AMENDMENT) ACT 1906 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Ground Game Act, 1880.
[4th August 1906]
Short title and interpretation.

GROUND GAME (AMENDMENT) ACT 1906 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906;
and the expressions "occupier" and "ground game" as used in this
Act shall have the same meaning as they have in the Ground Game
Act, 1880.

GROUND GAME (AMENDMENT) ACT 1906 - SECT 2
Extension of right of occupiers of moorlands &c. to kill ground
game.

2. Notwithstanding anything in section one, subsection (3), of the
Ground Game Act, 1880, contained, the occupier of lands to which
that subsection applies shall, without prejudice to his existing
rights under that Act, be entitled, between the first day of
September and the tenth day of December, both inclusive, in any and
every year, to exercise the right of killing and taking ground game
by the said Act conferred otherwise than by the use of firearms.

GROUND GAME (AMENDMENT) ACT 1906 - SECT 3
Agreements between occupiers and owners of moorlands, &c.

3. Section three of the Ground Game Act, 1880, shall not apply to
prevent the occupier of lands to which section one, subsection (3),
of that Act applies, and the owner of such lands or other persons
having a right to take and kill game thereon from making and
enforcing agreements for the joint exercise, or the exercise for
their joint benefit, of the right to kill and take ground game
between the first day of September and the tenth day of December,
both inclusive, in any or every year.

S.4 rep. by SLR 1927