
Part I
1—3 

Part II
4 
A person shall not be guilty of an offence under section eight of the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, by reason only that he uses poisonous gas in a rabbit hole, or places in a rabbit hole a substance which, by evaporation or in contact with moisture generates poisonous gas.
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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
(2) So much of section six of the Ground Game Act, 1880, as provides that no person having a right to kill ground game shall, for the purpose of killing ground game . . .  employ poison shall cease to have effect.
Part III
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(1) This Act may be cited as the Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act, 1939.
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(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland, to Northern Ireland or to the administrative county of London.