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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSFERRED EXCISE DUTIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 29

Penalty for killing or taking game without a game licence.

29.(1) Save as provided by this section, any person who

(a)kills or takes any game; or

(b)uses any dog, gun, net or engine for the killing or taking of game;

(2) This section shall not operate so as to require any member of the Royal
Family to take out a game licence.

(3) The following persons or any of them shall not, by reason only of being so
engaged, be guilty of an offence under this section

(a)any person engaged in aiding or assisting in the killing or taking of game
by the order and under the immediate direction of, and for the use only of, a
person who has in force a game licence, where any dog, gun, net or other
engine, then being lawfully used, belongs to the licence-holder;

(b)any person engaged in the killing or taking of snipe or wild duck;

(c)any occupier of any land, or any person duly authorised in writing by such
occupier, engaged in the killing or taking of ground game on that land in
accordance with the provisions of the Ground Game Acts;

(d)any person engaged in the killing or pursuing of hares by coursing with
greyhounds or by hunting with beagles or other hounds;

(e)any person engaged in the killing or pursuing of deer by hunting with
hounds;

(f)any owner or ocupier of any inclosed land, or any person acting by his
direction or permission, engaged in the killing or taking of deer on such
land.

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