The Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007
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(1) This Order may be cited as the Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 and comes into force on 1st August 2007.(2) This Order extends to England and Wales only.
sections 5 (saving as to existing laws requiring game certificates) and 6 (every person holding a certificate may kill and take game, in section 7
in section 10
in section 11
in section 13
in section 15
sections 17 (persons holding certificates may sell game to licensed dealers,
sections 21 to 23 (which contain further provisions relating to licences and certificates) ; and sections 25 to 29 (which contain provisions relating to licences and the consequences of persons not having licences or game certificates) . The Game Licences Act 1860
Section 4 of the Game Act 1831 (penalty on dealers in game buying, selling or possessing birds of game after 10 days after expiration of season for killing, After section 3 of the Game Act 1831 (penalty for killing or taking game on certain days and during certain seasons, etc.) insert— sells or offers or exposes for sale, orhas in his possession or transports for the purposes of sale,the Night Poaching Act 1828this Actthe Poaching Prevention Act 1862Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981which the person concerned knows or has reason to believe has been so taken or killed.The Schedule (which contains consequential repeals, revocations and amendments) has effect. the Hares Act 1848section 4 of the Ground Game Act 1880the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883in the first Schedulesection 27(1) (c) of the Local Government Act 1894the Finance Act 1908the Finance Act 1924in the Finance Act 1937in section 100 of the Agriculture Act 1947in Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1966in the Post Office Act 1969the Game Act 1970section 213 of the Local Government Act 1972section 176 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979in section 10 (offences relating to sale and purchase etc. of venison) , subsections (1) and (2) ;the definition of “licensed game dealer” in section 10(5) and the word “and” following it;section 11 (licensed game dealers to keep records) ; andSchedule 3 (form of record to be kept by licensed game dealers) ;in Schedule 8 to the Postal Services Act 2000in Schedule 8 to the Courts Act 2003
- “(1) If any person—
- (a) sells or offers or exposes for sale, or
- (b) has in his possession or transports for the purposes of sale, any bird of game to which this subsection applies, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.
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