IMPOUNDING ACT 1993 - SECT 26
Impounding fees and charges
IMPOUNDING ACT 1993 - SECT 26
Impounding fees and charges
26 Impounding fees and charges
(1) An impounding authority may fix the fees and charges that are to be paid
in respect of the impounding, holding and disposing of an item by the
authority and its impounding officers. The Commissioner of Police may by order
in writing fix the fees and charges that are to be paid in respect of the
impounding of an item by a police officer.
(2) The fees and charges that may
be fixed are as follows--
• a fee for walking or transporting an
impoundedanimal to the pound or to the address of its owner and to a market
or saleyard for sale,
• a charge for providing an impoundedanimal with
food, water and veterinary care,
• a charge for loss or damage
attributable to an impoundedanimal while it was unattended or trespassing,
• a fee for conveying an impounded article to a pound,
• a fee for
storing an impounded article at the pound,
• a fee to cover the cost of
serving a notice notifying the owner of an impounded item that the item may be
or has been impounded.
(3) Fees and charges may be fixed so as to differ
according to the kinds of animals or articles impounded.
(4) A fee or charge
must not exceed the corresponding maximum fee or charge (if any) prescribed by
the regulations, and any amount that is fixed so as to exceed the maximum is
reduced to the maximum.
(5) Fees and charges fixed under this section are the
fees and charges payable in respect of the impounding, holding and disposing
of an item under this Act.
(6) An impounding authority must remit to the
Commissioner of Police any fee or charge paid to or deducted or recovered by
the authority that was payable in respect of the impounding of an item by a
police officer.
(7) An impounding authority may waive payment of a fee or
charge, or part of a fee or charge, in respect of the impounding of an animal
in a public place that had strayed because a gate or fence had ceased to be
animal proof due to fire, flood or other natural disaster.