{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/32",
  "legislation_title": "Game Act 1831",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-act-1831",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Game may be taken from Trespassers not delivering up the same when demanded.",
  "text": "When any person shall be found by day or night upon any land, . . ., in search or pursuit of game, and shall then and there have in his possession any game which shall appear to have been recently killed, it shall be lawful for any person having the right of killing the game upon such land, by virtue of any reservation or otherwise, as herein-before mentioned, or for the occupier of such land (whether there shall or shall not be any such right by reservation or otherwise), or for any gamekeeper or servant or either of them, or . . . for any person acting by the order and in aid of any of the said several persons, to demand from the person so found such game in his possession, and, in case such person shall not immediately deliver up such game, to seize and take the same from him, for the use of the person entitled to the game upon such land, . . .",
  "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      "text": "Act (as extended to Scotland by Game Licenses Act 1860 (c. 90), s. 13) repealed (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), s. 43(1), Sch. Pt. 2 (with s. 41(1)); S.S.I. 2011/279, art. 2(1)(l)(ii) (as amended by S.S.I. 2011/287, art. 2)Act repealed (N.I.) (17.8.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 15), s. 40(1), Sch. 3 Pt. 2; S.R. 2011/285, art. 2, Sch."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      "text": "Words repealed by Wild Creatures and Forest Laws Act 1971 (c. 47), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 36 saved by Game Laws (Amendment) Act 1960 (c. 36), s. 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/32/section/36",
    "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."
}