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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939 (c.43)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939

1939 CHAPTER 43 2_and_3_Geo_6

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    1. 1—3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part II

    Amendments of Law relating to Killing of Hares and Rabbits

    1. 4. Provisions as to use of poison in rabbit holes

    2. 5. Prohibition of use of spring traps above ground

  3. Part III

    Supplementary Provisions

    1. 6. Short title, interpretation and extent

An Act to make provision for the prevention of damage by rabbits; and to amend the law relating to the use of poison and the use of spring traps above ground for the purpose of killing hares or rabbits.

[28th July 1939]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

Extent Information

E1For the extent of this Act see S. 6(3)

Part I

1—3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Ss. 1–3 repealed by Agriculture Act 1947 (c. 48), Sch. 13

Part II Amendments of Law relating to Killing of Hares and Rabbits

4 Provisions as to use of poison in rabbit holes

A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section eight of the M1Protection of Animals Act, 1911, by reason only that he uses poisonous gas in a rabbit hole, or places in a rabbit hole a substance which, by evaporation or in contact with moisture generates poisonous gas.

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 4 applied by Agriculture Act 1947 (c. 48), s. 98

Marginal Citations

M11911 c. 27.

5 Prohibition of use of spring traps above ground

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2)So much of section six of the M1Ground Game Act, 1880, as provides that no person having a right to kill ground game shall, for the purpose of killing ground game . . . F2 employ poison shall cease to have effect.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 5(1) repealed by Pests Act 1954 (c. 68), Sch.

F2Words repealed by Pests Act 1954 (c. 68), Sch.

Marginal Citations

M11880 c. 47.

Part III Supplementary Provisions

6 Short title, interpretation and extent

(1)This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act, 1939.

F1(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)This Act shall not extend to Scotland, to Northern Ireland or to the administrative county of London.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 6(2) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt.II