Prevention of Damage by Rabbits Act 1939
1939 c.43
An Act to make provision for the prevention of damage by rabbits; and to amend the law relating to the use of poison and the use of spring traps above ground for the purpose of killing hares or rabbits.
[28th July 1939]
Part I
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Part II Amendments of Law relating to Killing of Hares and Rabbits
 Provisions as to use of poison in rabbit holes. 
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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.
 Prohibition of use of spring traps above ground.
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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 Supplementary Provisions
 Short title, interpretation and extent.
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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.