New South Wales Consolidated Acts

IMPOUNDING ACT 1993 - SECT 5

5 Who can impound and what can be impounded

(1) Impounding officers can impound certain animals and articles, as provided by this Act. The power to impound conferred by this Act on an impounding officer of the Roads and Traffic Authority is limited to the impounding of motor vehicles, unless the regulations otherwise provide.

(2) Occupiers of private land can impound certain animals, as provided by this Act.

(3) A police officer has and may exercise the powers of any impounding officer (as if he or she had been appointed as an impounding officer by each impounding authority). This does not make a police officer subject to the direction or control of an impounding authority.

Note: Impounding officers are persons appointed as impounding officers by impounding authorities. See the definitions of "impounding officer" and "impounding authority" in the dictionary.
See the definition of "animal" in the dictionary for the types of animals to which this Act applies.