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(1) The following amendments and repeals shall have effect in the Game Act 1831:—
(a) in section 3, for the words " one pound " there shall be substituted the words " five pounds " , and for the words " ten pounds" there shall be substituted the words " twenty pounds "
(b) in section 4, for the words " one pound " there shall be substituted the words " five pounds " ;
(c) in section 4, the following words shall cease to have effect and are hereby repealed:—
(i) " or knowingly have in his house, shop, stall, possession, or control";
(ii) " or shall knowingly have in his house, possession or control any bird of game (except birds of game kept in a mew or breeding place) after the expiration of forty days (one inclusive and the other exclusive) from the respective days in each year on which it shall become unlawful to kill or take such birds of game respectively as aforesaid";
(iii) " or found in his house, shop, possession or control";
(d) in section 4, after the words " any bird of game ", in both places where those words occur in the section as amended as above, there shall be inserted the words " (except live birds for rearing or exhibition purposes or for sale alive) ".
(2) Section 10 of the Revenue Act 1911 is hereby repealed.
(3) The amendments made by this Act in section 4 of the Game Act 1831 shall have effect also in that section as applied by any subsequent enactment.
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Game Act 1970, and shall come into force on the second day of February 1971.
(2) Nothing in this Act extends to Northern Ireland.