{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-7E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-7E.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1928/25",
  "legislation_title": "Game Preservation Act (Northern Ireland) 1928",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/game-preservation-act-northern-ireland-1928",
  "path": "section/7E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7E",
  "heading": "Prohibition of destruction of cover for game.",
  "text": "It shall be unlawful for any person to burn or otherwise destroy, during the period commencing on the fifteenth day of April in any year and ending with the thirty-first day of August next following, any gorse, furze, whin, heath, ling or fern growing on any mountain, moor, heath, bog or other uncultivated land; and any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act:\nProvided that it shall be good defence for a person charged with an offence by virtue of this section to prove that the burning or destruction in respect of which he is so charged was carried out in the ordinary course of farming in accordance with the rules of good husbandry.]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1951 c.4 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1985 NI 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1928/25/section/7E",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:34:54.946079+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."
}