Hares Preservation Act 1892

1892 CHAPTER 8

An Act to enact a Close Time for Hares during the Breeding Season.

[20th May 1892]

Whereas as hares form an important article of food, and have of late years greatly decreased in numbers in England, Scotland, and Wales, by reason of their being inconsiderately slaughtered, and owing to their marketable value it is important to provide for their protection during the breeding season :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present-Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: