{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/43-44/47",
  "legislation_title": "Ground Game Act 1880",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the better protection of Occupiers of Land against injury to their Crops from Ground Game.\n[7th September 1880]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended (E.W.) by Ground Game (Amendment) Act 1906 (c. 21, SIF 4:3); modified (S.) by Small Landholders and Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1931 (c. 44), s. 23 and Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955 (c. 21), s. 27(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act excluded (S.) (5.1.1994) by 1993 (c. 44), ss. 52(7), 64(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/43-44/47/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:07.657958+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."
}