POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

No. 54 of 1911.
An Ordiitaitce to nwke provision for impounding stray animals,
for the disposal thereof.

[1st Decediber, 1911]

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

2. Any animal found it 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 has
paid to the Commissioner of Police the reasonable expenses of

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.





impounding and keeping such animal, together with the pound
fee.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations fixing the pound fees for animals generally or for
any particular class 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 pound fee be not paid
within three days after such impounding, notice of the intention
to sell the animal shall be pubhshed in the Gazette.

(2) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal
and of the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not
paid within seven days after the said publication, it shall be
lawful for the Commissioner of Police to cause the animal to
be sold either by private treaty or by public aufflon 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 Commis-
sioner 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.

No.55 of 1911 , incorporated in No., 16 of 1901.
repealed by No. 8 of 1921.

No. 56 of 1911 , incorporated in No. 35 of 1911.
Effect of registration not retrospective. [Originally No. 54 of 1911. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. ord., 1939.] Short title. Impounding stray animal. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 24.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound breach. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.]

Effect of registration not retrospective. [Originally No. 54 of 1911. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. ord., 1939.] Short title. Impounding stray animal. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 24.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound breach. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.]

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