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Sand-Grouse Protection Act 1888

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1888 c. 55


Sand-Grouse Protection Act, 1888

(51 & 52 Vict.) CHAPTER 55.

An Act for the better Protection of the Sand-Grouse in the United Kingdom.

[24th December 1888]

Whereas it is expedient to provide for the protection of the sand-grouse, in order that it may, if possible, become acclimatised in the United Kingdom:

Be it therefore 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:

S-1 Penalty for killing sand-grouse.

1 Penalty for killing sand-grouse.

1. Any person who shall, after the first day of February one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, knowingly or with intent kill, wound, or take any sand-grouse, or shall expose or offer for sale any sand-grouse killed or taken in the United Kingdom, shall, on conviction of any such offence before any justice or justices of the peace in England and Ireland, or before the sheriff or any justice or justices of the peace in Scotland, forfeit and pay for every such bird so killed, wounded, or taken, or exposed or offered for sale, such sum of money not exceeding one pound as to the said justice or justices shall seem meet, together with the costs of conviction.

S-2 Short title.

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