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Hunting Act 2004

Hunting Act 2004

2004 CHAPTER 37

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Offences

Section 5: Hare coursing

9.Section 5 prohibits hare coursing events.  Subsection (1) makes it an offence for a person to participate in, attend or knowingly facilitate a hare coursing event or to permit land which belongs to him to be used for a hare coursing event.  Under subsection (2) when a dog participates in a hare coursing event an offence is committed by any person who enters the dog for the event, who permits the dog to be entered for the event or who controls or handles the dog in the course of or for the purposes of the event.

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