Brands Registration Amendment Act 1874 No 12a (NSW)

No. XVII.

An Act to amend the " Regis t ra t ion of Brands

1. So much of the second section of the "Registration of Brands Act of 1866" as declares that the Registrar General shall be the Registrar of Brands is hereby repealed And from and after the com­ mencement of this Act the Chief Inspector of Sheep shall be the Registrar of Brands under the said Registration of Brands Act and for that purpose the expression " Chief Inspector of Sheep" shall be from the said time substituted in the said second section in lieu of the expression "Regis t rar General" and the term "Cons tab le" in the seventeenth

Act of 1866." [16th June, 1874.]

the " Registration of Brands Act of 1860" together with the Registers W H E R E A S it is deemed desirable to transfer the duties and powers of the Registrar General as Registrar of Brands under

of Brands now in his custody to the Chief Inspector of Sheep and in other respects to amend the said Act Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

seventeenth section of the said Act shall be taken to include any Inspector of Sheep And every such Inspector shall for the purposes of the said section have and may exercise all the powers which a constable or peace officer might lawfully exercise under the said section.

2. Within fourteen days after the passing of this Act the Registrar General shall cause to be transferred from his custody and deposited in the office and under the custody of the Chief Inspector of Sheep all the registers of brands required to be kept by the Registrar of Brands under the provisions of the " Registration of Brands Act of

1866."

3. The proviso at the end of the seventeenth section of the said Act and the whole of the eighteenth section thereof are hereby repealed.
4. All cattle or horses not described or not correctly described in the statement mentioned in the seventeenth section of the said Act found in the possession of any drover or other person apprehended under the said section may be placed in the public pound nearest to the place of his apprehension to be there kept until ordered by any two Justices of the Peace to be delivered up to some person claiming them as owner or otherwise and all cattle or horses correctly described in such statement may be forwarded to their destination by order of any Justice at the risk and expense of the owner.

5. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the said Act other­ wise than as is herein expressly enacted nor any proceeding offence matter or thing whatsoever done incurred or commenced under the said Act.