44 Game Licences.S
(1)The duties chargeable in Scotland under the M1Game Licences Act 1860 and section 5 of the M2Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883 shall be levied by [F1local authorities]and accordingly those duties shall cease to be Excise duties.
(2)The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as it seems necessary or expedient to make for giving effect to the foregoing subsection, and without prejudice to that generality may make provision for—
(a)transferring to [F1islands and district councils] the powers of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in relation to duties and licences under the said Act of 1860;
(b)(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2
(d)the form of, and the keeping of registers of, such licences.
(3)Any statutory instrument containing an order made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(4)This section shall come into force on 16th May 1967.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 44(1) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 67(3); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)
F2S. 44(2)(b)(c) repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II
Marginal Citations