The Night Poaching Act 1828 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (citation 9 Geo. IV c. 69) still in effect in the 21st century. It forbids night poaching, especially taking or destroying game on lands, etc., by night, or entering lands at night to take or destroy game. For the purposes of this Act the word “game” shall be deemed to include hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustards.
The Act — in particular, its original provisions for transportation to colonies such as Tasmania — made headlines in 2007, when two rabbit poachers were convicted and fined under it before magistrates at Hereford.
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