Game Preservation Act, 1930

• Permanent Page URL

PART II.

Restrictions on the Sale and Purchase of Game.

Prohibition of sale of game without licence.

20.—(1) No person shall sell, expose for sale or keep for sale any game without being duly licensed under this Act so to sell the same or at any place where he is not authorised by his licence to sell the same.

(2) Any person who shall, after the expiration of two months from the commencement of this Act, sell, expose for sale or keep for sale any game in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(3) Any person who shall, after the expiration of two months from the commencement of this Act, buy any game from any person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be selling the same in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(4) This section shall not apply to the holder of a firearm certificate the excise duty on which is two pounds selling game either lawfully killed by himself on his own land or land over which he had the right of shooting game or on any such land with his permission by another holder of a firearm certificate the excise duty on which is two pounds, nor shall this section prohibit the disposal by sale or otherwise of hares killed at coursing matches.