{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/32",
  "legislation_title": "Game Act 1831",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Penalty on Persons found armed using Violence, &c.",
  "text": "Where any persons, to the number of five or more together, shall be found on any land, . . ., in the daytime, in search or pursuit of game, or woodcocks, snipes, . . . 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 level 5 on the standard scale, as to the convicting justices shall seem meet . . .; 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "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      "text": "Act (as extended to Scotland by Game Licenses Act 1860 (c. 90), s. 13) repealed (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), s. 43(1), Sch. Pt. 2 (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279, art. 2(1)(l)(ii) (as amended by S.S.I. 2011/287, art. 2)Act repealed (N.I.) (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), s. 40(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 2; S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch."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      "text": "Words repealed by Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971 (c. 47), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Protection of Birds Act 1954 (c. 30), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31, Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), ss. 64, 123(6), Sch. 8 para. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 32 substituted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(1), Sch. 9 para. 1(3)(7); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Appendix A"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/32/section/32",
    "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."
}