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GAME PRESERVATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 7E

Prohibition of destruction of cover for game.

7E.It shall be unlawful for any person to burn or otherwise destroy, during
the period commencing on the fifteenth day of March in any year and ending
with the fifteenth day of July next following, any gorse, furze, whin, heath,
ling or fern growing on any mountain, moor, heath, bog or other uncultivated
land; and any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty
of an offence under this Act:

Provided that it shall be good defence for a person charged with an offence by
virtue of this section to prove that the burning or destruction in respect of
which he is so charged was carried out in the ordinary course of farming in
accordance with the rules of good husbandry.][

© 1928 Crown Copyright

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