5 This Act not to affect the existing Laws respecting Game Certificates.U.K.
[F1 Nothing in this Act contained shall in anywise affect or alter (except as herein-after mentioned) any Act or Acts now in force by which any persons using any dog, gun, net, or other engine for the purpose of taking or killing any game whatever, or any woodcock, snipe . . . F2 , or any conies, are required to obtain and have annual game certificates; but that all persons who before the commencement of this Act were required to obtain and have such certificates shall after the commencement of this Act be required from time to time to obtain and have the like certificates; and all the powers, provisions, and penalties contained in such Act or Acts shall continue in as full force and effect as if this Act had not been made; and that all regulations and provisions contained in any Act or Acts relative to game certificates, so far as they relate to gamekeepers of manors, and to the amount of duty for game certificates to be charged upon or in respect of gamekeepers of manors in the cases specified in such Act or Acts, shall extend and apply to all gamekeepers of lands appointed under this Act as fully and effectually as if they were gamekeepers of manors, and were expressly mentioned in and charged by such Act or Acts. ]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 5 repealed (E.W.) (1.8.2007) by Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2007), arts. 1(1), 2(a)
F2Words repealed by Protection of Birds Act 1954 (c. 30), Sch. 6
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 5: functions of local authority not to be responsibility of an executive of the authority (E.) (16.11.2000) by virtue of S.I. 2000/2853, reg. 2(1), Sch. 1