Scab Districts Act 1867 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO PR1310

No* l*

An Act to prevent the Removal flom or Travelling oj* Sheep within

Certain Limits in the Provir~ce o f South Australiu to be definned

by the Governor, and for other p&y)oses.

[Assented to, 29th August, 1867.1

HEREAS i t is expedient to prevent the removal from or the Preamble.

W travelling of sheep within certain portions of the Province of South Australia, where shcep infected with the disease known as

the Scab have been or arc depasturing or travelling; and for such purpose it is desirable to empower the Govcrnor by Proclamation to define the limits of such portions of the said Province as herein- after mcntioncd-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council ancl IIouse of ,4sscmbly of the said Province, in this present Farliament assembled, as follows:

1. This Act and the " Scab Act, 1859," shall be construed Incorporation.

together as forming one Act.

2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the '' Proclamation short tille.

of Scab Districts Act, 1867,"

3. The Governor, with thc advice of the Executive Council, may Governor map pre- claim districts within

from time to time by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, define

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the limits of any portion of or district in the said Province within travel-

which sheep infected with the disease called the scab have been de-

pastured, and may by the same Proclamation prohibit all sheep then

being within the limits of any district so defined as aforesaid from

being removed therefrom or from being travelled from one portion

of such district to another, except under the authority of a special

A permit

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Proclamatim of @cab Districts Act, l 867.

permit from an inspector, and may also prohibit all sheep from travelling into the said district, or, having inadvertently or otherwise travelled within the limits of such district, from being removed there- from; and the said Governor, with the advice aforesaid, may also from time to time by a like Proclamation remove such prohibition, either as to the, whole or any portion of the district or country men-

tioned in the Proclamation containing SLICB prohibition.

Pel~alty fortravelling

ehecp within pro-	4. Any person who shall, except under the authority of a special permit from an inspector, during the continuance of any such prohibition as mentioned in the last preceding section, bive, or cause to be driven, any sheep out of, on to, over, or across any por- tion of the country included in such proldition, whether such sheep shall be affected with the scab or not, and whether such sheep may at the time of the issuing of such Yroclarnation bc then depasturing on or upon any portion of the coulitry included in such prohibition or
hibited districts.
not shall forfeit and pity a sum of not less than Ten Pounds nor morc
than Two Hundred Pounds, and any such sheep so driven, contrary. to the provisions of this section, shall be deemed to be infected with the scab and may be seized and destroyed accordingly.

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diotrict to he published 5. Every Proclamation defining a district under this Act shall be

~ce lr ly.	published weekly in thc South Australiua Government Gnxette so long
as such Proclamation is in force.

6. This Act may be amended or repealed during the present

Session of l'arliament.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hercby assent to

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor.

Adelaide k'rbtcd by authority, by W. C. Cox, Government Printer, Victoria.,square.