Section 32 Penalty on Persons found armed using Violence, &c.F1

Where any persons, to the number of five or more together, shall be found on any land, F2. . ., in the daytime, in search or pursuit of game, or woodcocks, snipes, F3. . . or conies, any of such persons being then and there armed with a gun, and such persons or any of them shall then and there, by violence, intimidation, or menace, prevent or endeavour to prevent any persons authorized as herein-before mentioned from approaching such persons so found, or any of them, for the purpose of requiring them or any or them to quit the land whereon they shall be so found, or to tell their or his own christian name, surname, or place of abode respectively, as herein-before mentioned, every person so offending by such violence, intimidation, or menace as aforesaid, and every person then and there aiding or abetting such offender, shall, upon being convicted thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay for every such offence such penalty, not exceeding F4F5level 5 on the standard scale, as to the convicting justices shall seem meet F6. . .; which said penalty shall be in addition to and independent of any other penalty to which any such person may be liable for any other offence against this Act.