The Night Poaching Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 69) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 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 the act the word 'game' is 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.
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed for Northern Ireland by the schedule to the Game Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 4 (N.I.)), which came into force on .
Section 7 of the act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part XIX of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976, which came into force on 27 May 1976.
The whole act was repealed for Scotland by section 43(1) of, and part 2 of the schedule to, the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011, which came into force on 29 June 2011.
See also Game Act 1831
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