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23 & 24 Vict. c. 90. s. 14.
Persons dealing in game without excise licence to be liable to penalty whether licensed by justices or not.
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17. Whereas by the fourteenth section of the Game Licences Act, 1860, a penalty of twenty pounds is imposed upon any person who shall obtain a licence to deal in game from the justices of the peace under the provisions of certain Acts therein referred to, and who shall purchase or sell or otherwise deal in game before he shall obtain a licence to deal in game under the provisions of the Game Licences Act, 1860: Be it enacted, that the said penalty shall be incurred by every person who, under the provisions of the said Acts so referred to as aforesaid, ought to obtain a licence from the justices of the peace to deal in game, and who shall purchase or sell or otherwise deal in game before he shall obtain a proper excise licence under the provisions of the Game Licences Act, 1860, whether he shall have obtained a licence from the said justices or not; and in any information exhibited for recovery of the said penalty it shall be sufficient to allege, and upon the trial thereof to prove, that the defendant dealt in game without the licence required by the Game Licences Act, 1860.
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