Section 7 Licences may be taken out on behalf of Assessed Servants acting as Gamekeepers for Persons having Right to kill Game, or under Deputations from Lords of Manors.C2C1
Any person having the right to kill game on any lands in England or Scotland F1employing any male servant as a gamekeeper whether deputed or appointed or not, and any person granting a deputation or appointment in Great Britain to the male servant of any other person with power and authority to take or kill any game, shall respectively be at liberty to take out a licence to kill game on behalf of any such servant on payment of the duty of F2four pounds for the year ending on the fifth day of April; and such licence shall exempt the servant named therein during his continuance in the same capacity and service, and on his quitting such service shall also exempt any servant who shall succeed him in the same service and capacity, or who shall succeed to the deputation of the same manor or royalty or lands within the year for which the licence is granted, during the remainder of such year; and no such servant on whose behalf a licence shall have been duly obtained as aforesaid shall be required to obtain a licence for himself, or be liable to any penalty by reason of not obtaining a licence in his own name.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words substituted by Finance Act 1937 (c. 54,SIF 4:3,88:3), s. 5, Sch. 2
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Fees substituted by S.I. 1968/120
Modifications
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Power to amend s. 7 given by Local Government Act 1966 (c. 42,SIF81:1), s. 35(2), Sch. 3 Pt. II and Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 (c. 51), s. 42(2), Sch. 4 Pt. II
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S. 7 amended with the substitution for the fifth day of April of the thirty-first day of July by Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1883 (c. 10), s. 4
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed: (E.W.) (1.8.2007) by Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2007), art. 3; and (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act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)