Scab Act 1863 (SA)

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO El: VICESIMO SEPTIMO

A.D. 1863.

No. 8.

Af2 Act to amend the Scab Act 1859, am? for other purposes.

C=\sscntccf to, 12th Novernbrr, 1863.3

AS it is desirable to prevent the introduction from other

W""""	facilities for the xecovery of penalties or other sums of money im-
Colonies of s'heep infected with scab, and to afford increased posed or made payable under the Scab Act, 1859-Be it therefore Enacted by the Clovernor-in-Chief of the Province of South Aus- tralia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Pnrliament assembled, as follows:
1. If any person shall drive, or cause to be driven, any sheep across the boundary line of the said Province from either of the Sheep not to lie intro-

writing, signed by an Inspector of Sheep for the said Province such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds, and not less than Fifty Pounds, and, in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any period not exceeding six calendar months; and any lessee of any run, or any owner of sheep, or any overseer of a run if the person driving sheep fail on acinand to produce his permit, is authorized and empowered to seize and detain such sheep, until such Inspector shall have examined them; and, in the event of such sheep, or any of them, being declared by the Inspector to be infected with scab, the said Inspector may cause the same to be forthwith destroyed. 2. No

duced from Now South

Walca or Vic$oria

Colonies of New South Wales or Victoria, without a permit, in Mhout e ptltmit.

Scab Act.-1863.

Redtriction on the

iesue of permits,

2. No Inspector shall grant any permit unless it shall be proved to his satisfation that the sheep in respect of which such permit is granted are free from scab, aria have 6een so, without dres&ng or dipping, for six cdendar months then next preceding, and have not, within six calendar months, crossed or been depastured on any lands where scabby sheep have travelled or been depastured within three calendar months of their so crossing.

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3. Any person who may be desirous of crossing any run, or leased Crown Lands, or any Crown Lands within any Hundred, with

awns runs to give ,

less than five mile8 a	any flock of sheep or drove of cattle shall, before entering upon any
day.
sucb run, leased lands, or Crown Lands, give to the owner, or occu- pier, or overseer of such run or leased lands, and as to Crown Lands

do. l&# cj @A within Hundreds, then to the nearest Police Constable or Crown

$-!&4d. Lands Ranger, not, less than twenty-four hours' nor more than seven days' notice in writing of his intention so to cross, and shall in

d B 4 4 '7 3, such notice speci$ the place from which such sheep or cattle started and their destination and the number and description of the cattle

3. 3 8 or sheep contained in such drove or flock, and the points and dates

/%&a 444 4 at which such person proposes to enter and leave such run or leased lands, or other Crown Lands, and the person so entering shall

/M@*	2 0 drive or conduct such flock or drove i.n the direct course of their five statute miles on each day whilst crossing such run or leased lands or other Crown Lands; and any person offending against or violating the provisions of this clau& without reasoniblg excuse,'	destination as specified in such notice a distance of not less than
shall be'liable'to a penalty of not less than Two Pounds nor more
than One Hundred Pounds, and in default of payment of any such penalty to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for any period not exceeding six calendar months.

Penalties may be

recovered in a	4. Every proceeding for the rpcovesy of any penalty, sum of money, and other sums by this or the said Act imposed or made payable, may be had before any two or more Justices of the Peace for the said Province, in a summary way, by or in the name o f the Inspector, or any other person.
summary m8nnt.r.

Acttohcanhed 5" This Act and the Scab Act 1859, &all be construed as one

with 30, 19 of 1859.

Act.

~ h t title. 6. This Act may be cited as the c c Scab Act, 1863."

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

D, DALY, Governor.

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Adelaide: Printed by authority, by W. C. COX, Goyernment Printer, Yictoria-equare.