HC Deb 30 March 1911 vol 23 cc1611-2

Sections twenty-five and twenty-seven of the Game Act, 1831 (which relate to sales of game by and purchases of game from persons other than licensed dealers), and so much of Section four of the same Act, as makes it an offence for any person to buy or sell or have in his house, possession, or control game birds after the dates therein specified, shall not apply where the game is live game, and the person buying, selling, or having in his house, possession, or control the game, or the person from whom or by whom the game is bought or sold, is keeping or intending to keep the game solely for the purpose of breeding or for sale alive.

The amendments made by the section shall have effect in the Game Act, 1831, as applied by any subsequent enactment as well as in that Act as originally enacted.

Amendments made:

Leave out the words "Sections twenty-five and twenty-seven of the Ganie Act, 1831 (which relates to sales of game by and purchases of game from persons other than licensed dealers) and."

Leave out the words: "same Act" ["Section four of the same Act"] and insert instead thereof the words: "Gam Act, 1831."

Leave out the words "or the person from whom or by whom the game is bought or sold."

After the words "solely for the purpose of breeding or for sale alive," insert the words, "And either is licensed at the time to deal in game, or is a holder of a certificate or licence to kill game in force at the time."—[Mr. Hobhouse.]