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GAME PRESERVATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 3

Register to be kept by holder of licence to deal in game.

3.(1) From and after the commencement of this section every holder of a
licence to deal in game ..., shall keep or cause to be kept in the premises
specified therein a register, in the prescribed form, of all purchases,
receipts, sales, and disposals in any manner, of game by him, and shall enter
or cause to be entered in such register forthwith the prescribed particulars
(which shall not include any particulars as to price) of such purchases,
receipts, sales and disposals.

(2) Any person authorised in that behalf by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and
any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary of a rank not lower than sergeant,
may inspect any register kept in pursuance of this section; and it shall be
the duty of the licence-holder and of every person keeping such register to
produce for inspection by such authorised person or member of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary such register, and also all game on the premises, together with
all invoices, consignment notes, receipts, and other documents (including
copies thereof where the originals are not available) which may be required to
verify any entry in such register, and to allow such authorised person or
member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to take copies of such register or
documents or extracts therefrom.

(3) Any holder of a licence to deal in game who fails to comply with any
provision of this section, and any person who obstructs any person entitled
under this section to inspect any register or document in the making of such
inspection, or who wilfully or negligently makes or causes to be made in such
register any entry which is false or misleading in any material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

Subs.(4) rep. by 1953 c.24 (NI) s.80 sch.4

(5) For the purposes of this section

(a)the expression "prescribed" means prescribed by the Ministry of Home
Affairs;

(b)a demand for inspection of a register or other document shall be deemed to
have been duly made to the licence-holder if such demand is made verbally on
the premises of the licence-holder to any agent, employee, servant, or member
of the family of, the licence-holder thereon.


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