Pounds Act 1959 (ACT)

I AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 5 of 1959.

- AN ORDINAiNCE

To amend the Pounds Ordinance 1928-1937.

I THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Common-	Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under
,	wealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal

the Seat of Government {Administration) Act 1910-1955.

Dated this eighteenth day of April, 1959.

W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

GORDON FREETH

Minister of State for the Interior.

POUNDS ORDINANCE 1959.

1.—(1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds	Short title
Ordinance 1959.*	and citation.

(2 . ) The Pounds Ordinance 1928-1937f is in this Ordin-

ance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3 . ) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordin-

ance, may be cited as the Pounds Ordinance 1928-1959.

2. Section five of the Principal Ordinance is amended— Definitions.

(a) by omitting from the definition of " Cattle " the words " and any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, and any " and inserting in their stead the words " and any sheep, pig,"; and

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(c) by omitting uub-section (3.) and inserting in its I

(b) by omitting the definition of " Tillage land ".

3. Section eleven of the Principal Ordinance is amended— Driving charges, u

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words	e,e™,1«sd
a

" sustenance fees " and inserting in their stead r"td.strespass

the words " deterrent fees ";

(b) by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following

sub-section:—

" (1A. ) The sustenance fees payable in respect

of any pound shall be such fees as are fixed by

the Minister from time to time.";

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th May, 1959.

t Ordinance No. 10, 1928, as amended by No. 5, 1930; and No. 27, 1937.

stead the following sub-section:—

" (3.) Deterrent fees fixed in pursuance of this section shall be payable to the Common- wealth in respect of all impounded cattle in the pound."; and

(d) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words "as the land trespassed on is or is not tillage land enclosed with a sufficient fence " and inserting in their stead the words " the type of land trespassed on .

4. Section fourteen of the Principal Ordinance is repealed

and the following section inserted in its stead:—

wesbrdisrpiayed displayed on a conspicuous part of the pound a list of all charges,	List of charges, " 14. The poundkeeper shall cause to be displayed and kept
partcoFSpocv!n0dus I e e s a n d r a t e s t n a t a r e payable under this Ordinance.".
Lodging cattle
in pound for 5. Section twenty-two of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.
safe custody.
Poundkeeper to 6. Section twenty-seven of the Principal Ordinance is in the Gazette and in a newspaper published in the Territory," and inserting in their stead the words " publish in a newspaper published in the Territory ".
give notice to
persons amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words " publish
registering
brands of cattle.
Cattle not 7. Section twenty-eight of the Principal Ordinance is
be sold at amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words the
pound. Gazette and :
Penalty for
offences by 8. Section thirty-five of the Principal Ordinance is
other persons. amended—

(a) by omitting the words " If any person " and insert-

ing in their stead the words " Any person who ";

and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (h) the words "the tillage land of any other person; or " and inserting in their stead the words—

" the land of any other person, being land

that—

(i) contains a garden or bears a grow-

ing crop; and

(ii) is enclosed with a sufficient fence;

or".

Regulations. 9. Section forty-one of the Principal Ordinance is amended

by omitting the words " pound fees, driving charges, sustenance	I
fees, trespass rates, charges for lodging cattle in pounds for safe custody, and ".

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUB, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.