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Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939 1939 c.43 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]
Propose a changeA person shall not be guilty of an offence under section eight of the Protection 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.
Propose a change(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) So much of section six of the Ground Game Act, 1880, as provides that no person having a right to kill ground game shall, for the purpose of killing ground game . . . employ poison shall cease to have effect.
Propose a change(1) This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act, 1939. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland, to Northern Ireland or to the administrative county of London.
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