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Person charged with an offence against section 4 of 23 & 24 Vict. c. 90 may be convicted of an offence against section 7 of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 57.
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6. If upon the hearing of an information exhibited against any person for recovery of the penalty imposed by the fourth section of the Game Licences Act, 1860, it shall be proved that such person used or carried a gun without having in force a proper licence under the Gun Licence Act, 1870, he shall not be entitled to be wholly acquitted by reason of a failure to prove an offence against the said section, but the Court before whom the said information is heard shall be at liberty to acquit him of the charge contained in the said information and convict him of an offence against the seventh section of the Gun Licence Act, 1870, and order him to pay the penalty thereby imposed.
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