{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-31A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-31A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/32",
  "legislation_title": "Game Act 1831",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831",
  "path": "section/31A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31A",
  "heading": "Powers of constables in relation to trespassers.",
  "text": "The powers conferred by section 31 above to require a person found on land as mentioned in that section to quit the land and to tell his christian name, surname, and place of abode shall also be exercisable by a police constable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act (as extended to Scotland by Game Licenses Act 1860 (c. 90), s. 13) repealed (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), s. 43(1), Sch. Pt. 2 (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279, art. 2(1)(l)(ii) (as amended by S.S.I. 2011/287, art. 2)Act repealed (N.I.) (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), s. 40(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 2; S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31A inserted by Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60, SIF 95), Sch. 6 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/32/section/31A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:41.951972+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}