{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/43-44/47",
  "legislation_title": "Ground Game Act 1880",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ground-game-act-1880",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prohibition of night shooting, spring traps above ground, or poison.",
  "text": "No person having a right of killing ground game under this Act or otherwise shall use any firearms for the purpose of killing ground game between the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement of the last hour before sunrise; and no such person shall, for the purpose of killing ground game, . . . . . . employ poison; and any person acting in contravention of this section shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding two poundslevel 1 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6 repealed (S.) by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), Sch. 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words “level 1 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.) for “two pounds” by virtue of Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45, SIF 39:1), s. 31 and Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 excluded by Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69, SIF 4:5), Sch. 7 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 6 amended (E.W.) (except London) by Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939 (c. 43), ss. 5(2), 6(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/43-44/47/section/6",
    "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."
}