{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poaching-prevention-act-1862/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poaching-prevention-act-1862/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/25-26/114",
  "legislation_title": "Poaching Prevention Act 1862",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poaching-prevention-act-1862",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for the Prevention of Poaching.\n[7th August 1862]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (S.) (29.6.2011) by Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011 (asp 6), s. 43(1), Sch.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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Short title “The Poaching Prevention Act, 1862” given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act restricted (S.) by Constables (Scotland) Act 1875 (c. 47); amended (S.) by Game Laws Amendment (Scotland) Act 1877 (c. 28, SIF 4:3), s. 10 and (E.W.) by Game Laws Amendment Act 1960 (c. 36), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Words of enactment repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Act 1855 (c. 126) cited or referred to by its short title under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14), s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/25-26/114/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:07:32.277176+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."
}