From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>He will eventually offer you the chance to take a shot or two, and you can legally use his rifle for this, thanks to a useful legal provision that now allows this. << Only if he is the owner of the land or the owner's employee and you are 17 or over. Cheers David ---- Not just the owner or owner's employee. The Act (it is section 16 of the 1988 Act), says "in the presence either of the occupier or a servant of the occupier". It is generally accepted that "occupier" includes any individual, partnership or corporate tenant or lease-holder (including a sporting tenant), and a "servant" is anyone who provides a service, whether remunerated or not. As with any such exemption, the onus is on the claimant to prove entitlement, so, for instance, it would be prudent for the sporting lease and the servant's appointment to be documented in writing. That said, Case Law is a bit thin on this subject, perhaps because there are large areas of the ungrateful countryside over which Messrs. Blair & Co have not yet established full CCTV coverage. Rgds, Peter. -------[Cybershooters contacts]-------- Editor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website & subscription info: www.cybershooters.org
