Cattle Driving Act 1898 (NSW)

Act No. 20, 1898.

An Act to consolidate the Acts for p r e v e n t i n g

Cattle be ing dr iven t h r o u g h populous towns and places except wi th in certain hours . [27th July, 1898.]

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

authority of the same, as follows :—

1.  (1) This Act may be cited as the " Cattle Driving Act, 1898."

(2 ) The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule hereto are hereby

repealed.

2. This Act shall, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained,

apply—

(1) to every town, municipality, and place mentioned in the Second

Schedule hereto ; and

( 2 ) to every town, municipality, or place to which the Governor shall, upon the application of the inhabitants thereof, or of the bench of magistrates thereat, hereafter decide and notify in the Gazette that this Act shall apply.

3. In the construction of this Act the word " cattle " shall extend to and include bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, and steers, but shall not be held to apply to milch cows, or cattle in teams, or to working cattle.

4. No cattle intended for sale, slaughter, or shipment shall be driven into or through any part of any town, municipality, or place to which this Act applies except between the hours of six o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock in the forenoon ; and every person who drives or causes to be driven any such cattle as aforesaid into or through any part of any such town, municipality, or place at any other hour shall on conviction before one or more justices of the peace, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty shillings for each and every head of cattle so driven.

5. The Governor may on receipt of a petition signed by not fewer than twenty householders resident at any town, municipality, or place to which this Act, at the time of the receipt of such petition, applies, praying that this Act may be declared to be no longer applicable to such town, municipality, or place, cause the substance and prayer of

of such petition to be published in the Gazette ; and unless a counter

petition, signed by a greater number of householders resident as afore- said, is received by the Colonial Secretary within one month from the date of such publication, the Governor may, by proclamation published in like manner, declare that this Act shall no longer apply to such town, municipality, or place, and the same shall thereupon be no longer applicable accordingly.

SCHEDULES.

F I R S T SCHEDULE.

Reference to Act.	Title of Act.	Extent of Repeal.
1 6 Vic. No. 2 3 . .	An Act to prevent Cattle being driven through popu­	The whole Act.

lous towns and places except within certain hours.

24 Vic. No. 2 2 . . An Act to amend the Cattle-driving Act, sixteenth The whole Act.

Victoria number twenty-three.

S E C O N D S C H E D U L E .

Towns.

Armidale.	Gundagai, North.	Parramatta.
Balmain.	Gundagai, South.	Penrith.
Bourke.	Gunnedah.	Richmond.
Braidwood.	Kiama.	Singleton.
Casino.	Leichhardt.	Strathfield.
Coonamble.	Marrickville.	Tamworth.
Five Dock.	Moama.	Waratah.
Goulburn.	Narrandera.	West Kempsey.

Granville. Newcastle. Windsor.

Municipalities. Place.

Ashfield.	Concord.	Bridge over the Lachlan
Balmain.	Marrickville.	River at Forbes
Burwood.	Murrurundi.
Canterbury.	St. Peters.

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