Ground Game Act 1880
1 Occupier to have a right inseparable from his occupation to kill ground game concurrently with any other person entitled to kill the same on land in his occupation.
2 Occupier entitled to kill ground game on land in his occupation not to divest himself wholly of such right.
3 All agreements in contravention of right of occupier to destroy ground game void.
4 Exemption from game licences.
5 Saving clause.
6 Prohibition of night shooting, spring traps above ground, or poison.
7 As to non-occupier having right of killing game.
8 Interpretation clause.
9 Exemption from penalties.
10 Saving of existing prohibitions.
11 Short title.

Ground Game Act 1880

1880 c.47

An Act for the better protection of Occupiers of Land against injury to their Crops from Ground Game.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)

C3

Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

C4

This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland.

C5

Act excluded (S.) (5.1.1994) by 1993 (c. 44), ss. 52(7), 64(2)