Poaching Prevention Act 1862
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1862 c. 114 |
(25 & 26 Vict.) C A P. CXIV.
[7th August 1862]
'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Laws now in force for the better Detection and Prevention of Poaching should be amended:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
1 Interpretation of Terms.
1. The Word ‘Game’ in this Act shall for all the Purposes of this Act be deemed to include any One or more Hares, Pheasants, Partridges, Eggs of Pheasants and Partridges, Woodcocks, Snipes, Rabbits, Grouse, Black or Moor Game, and Eggs of Grouse, Black or Moor Game; and the Words ‘Justice’ and ‘Justices’ in this Act shall, unless otherwise provided for, mean respectively a Justice and Justices of the Peace respectively of or for the County, Riding, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place in which any Game, Gun, Part of Gun, Net Snare, or Engine after mentioned shall be found.
2 Power to Constables to search Persons without Warrant, in certain Cases.
2. It shall be lawful for any Constable or Peace Officer in any County, Borough, or Place inGreat Britain and Ireland , in any Highway, Street, or public Place, to search any Person whom he may have good Cause to suspect of coming from any Land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of Game, or any Person aiding or abetting such Person, and having in his Possession any Game unlawfully obtained, or any Gun, Part of Gun, or Nets or Engines used for the killing or taking Game, and also to stop and search any Cart or other Conveyance in or upon which such Constable or Peace Officer shall have good Cause to suspect that any such Game or any such Article or Thing is being carried by any such Person, and should there be found any Game or any such Article or Thing as aforesaid upon such Person, Cart or other Conveyance, to seize and detain such Game, Article, or Thing; and such Constable or Peace Officer shall in such Case apply to some Justice of the Peace for a Summons citing such Person to appear before Two Justices of the Peace assembled in Petty Sessions, as provided in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twenty-six, Section Nine, as far as regards England and Ireland , and before a Sheriff or any Two Justices of the Peace in Scotland ; and if such Person shall have obtained such Game by unlawfully going on any Land in search or...
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