{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/night-poaching-act-1828/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/night-poaching-act-1828/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo4/9/69",
  "legislation_title": "Night Poaching Act 1828",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/night-poaching-act-1828",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Persons going armed by Night for the Destruction of Game.\n[19th July 1828]\n... And whereas the Practice of going out by night for the purpose of destroying Game has ... very much increased of late years, and has in very many instances led to the commission of Murder, and of other grievous offences; and it is expedient ... to make more effectual Provisions than now by law exist for repressing such practice:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (N.I.) by Game Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1951 (c. 4 (N.I.)), Sch.; and Act repealed (29.6.2011) (S.) by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), s. 43(1), Sch. Pt. 2; S.S.I. 2011/279, art. 2(1)(l)(ii) (as substituted by S.S.I. 2011/287, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (c. 57)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title “The Night Poaching Act 1828” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act extended by Night Poaching Act 1844 (c. 29), s. 1; amended (S.) by Game Laws Amendment (Scotland) Act 1877 (c. 28), s. 10; amended as to prosecutions in the sheriff court with the provision that the same shall be taken at the instance of the procurator fiscal by Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927 (c. 35), s. 12 and S.R. & O. 1938/606 (Rev. XXI, p. 698: 1938 II, p. 3142); amended as to imprisonment with hard labour by Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2) and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1949 (c. 94), s. 16(2) and as to transportation by Penal Servitude Act 1857 (c. 3), s. 2, Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Certain words of enactment and other words repealed by Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1888 (c. 57) and remaining words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/9/69/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:55:29.263300+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."
}