Game Preservation Act, 1930

Exemption for netting of game birds and hares for re-stocking.

11.—(1) A superintendent of the Gárda Síochána may grant to any owner or occupier of land in the district for which he is such superintendent or to any person having the exclusive right of shooting on any such land permission in writing to take alive on such land, pheasants, partridge, or hares at any time by means of nets solely for the purpose of increasing the number or improving the quality of the pheasants, partridge, or hares (as the case may be) on such land or on any other land in Saorstát Eireann.

(2) A superintendent of the Gárda Síochána giving any such permission as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section may attach to such permission such conditions (whether as to the duration of such permission, the land to which it relates, the number of birds or hares to be taken thereunder or any other matter) as he shall think fit and shall specify therein.

(3) When any such permission as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-sections of this section has been duly given to any person nothing in this Act shall render unlawful the taking of pheasants, partridge or hares (as the case may be) by such person under and in accordance with such permit nor shall such taking of pheasants, partridge or hares (as the case may be) by such person be an offence under this Part of this Act.