POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

POUNDS ORDINANCE, 1911

No. 54 of 1911.
To make provision for Impounding Stray Animals and for the
disposal thereof.
1. 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 im-
pounding and keeping such animal, together with the pound fee.

3. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations fixing the
pound fees for aninials 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 1 dollar.

4.-(1) If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid within 3
days after such impounding, notice of the infention to sell the
animal 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 pound fee.are not paid
within 7 days after the said publication it shall be lawful for the
Captain. Superintendent of Police to cause the animal to be sold
either by private treatyor 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.

f As amended bv No. 16 of 1912 and No. 17 of 1912.
f As amended b~, No. 17 of 1912 and No. 43 of 1912 Supp. Sched.
As amended by No. 17 of 1912, No. 21 of 1912 and No. 43 of
1912 Supp. Sched.
(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
deniand is not made within one month after the sate 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 be liable, on summary con-
viction, to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding 3 months.
short title . Impounding stray animal . Cf. 10 & 11 vict.c. 80 s. 25. Pound fees. Power to sel impounded animals . pound breach . Cf. 10 &11 vict. C. 89 s. 26.

short title . Impounding stray animal . Cf. 10 & 11 vict.c. 80 s. 25. Pound fees. Power to sel impounded animals . pound breach . Cf. 10 &11 vict. C. 89 s. 26.

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