POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

No. 54 of 1911.

An Ordinance to make provision for impounding stray
animals and for the disposal thereof.

[1st December , 1911.]


1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds Ordinance,
1911.

2. Any animal found at large without any person having
the charge thereof and which in the opinion of any police
Officer appears to have been lost or to be doing damage, may
be seized by such police officer and impounded in any
convenient place, and may be detained therein until the
owner thereof shall have paid to the Captain Superintendent
of Police the reasonable expenses of Impounding and keeping

such animal, together with the pound fee.

3. lt shall be lawful for the governor in Council to make
regulations fixing the pound fees for animals generally or for
any particular classes of animal : Provided, however, that if
no such regulations are made, or if the animal impounded
does not fall within any class in respect of which a pound
fee has been fixed, the pound fee shall be one dollar.

4.--(1) If the said expenses and potind fee be not paid
within three days after such impounding, notice of the Inten-
tion to sell the aninal shall be published in the Gazette.

(2) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal
and of the publication in the Gazette and the potind fee are
not paid within sevell days after the said publication it shall
bc lawfull, for the Captain Superintendent of Police to cause

the animal to be sold either by private treaty or by public
auction as he may think fit, and the purchaser thereof shall
acquire a good title. If the animal is unsaleable, or if in the
opinion of the Captain Superintendent of Police it is an
unsaleable animal, it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed
of as he may direct.

(3) The money arising from such sale after deducting the
above-mentioned expenses and fee and the expenses of the
sale, shall be paid on demand to the owner of the animal :
Provided that if such demand is not made within one
month after the sale all right to make it shall cease and the
money shall be paid into the general revenue.

5. Every person who releases or attempts to release any
animal from any place where it has been impounded, or who
pulls down, damages or destroys such place or any part
thereof with intent to procure the release of such animal,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding three months.
[Originally No. 54 of 1911. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Impounding stray animal. [ef. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. Pound breach. [ef. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.] [Originally No. 57 of 1911. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees.

[Originally No. 54 of 1911. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Impounding stray animal. [ef. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. Pound breach. [ef. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.] [Originally No. 57 of 1911. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Incorporation of trustees.

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