IMPOUNDING ACT 1920 - SECT 7

IMPOUNDING ACT 1920 - SECT 7

7—Pound to be fenced, enclosed, and kept clean and in repair

        (1)         Every public pound shall be properly enclosed and adapted, so far as may be, for keeping cattle infected with any contagious or infectious disease separate and apart from other cattle, and shall be kept clean and in good repair by the keeper thereof.

        (2)         If the keeper of any public pound—

            (a)         does not keep such pound clean and in good repair; or

            (b)         knowingly keeps or permits to be kept therein any cattle infected with any contagious or infectious disease in the same enclosure with cattle not so infected; or

            (c)         does not supply the cattle for the time being impounded therein with a sufficiency of wholesome food at least twice a day, once before the hour of nine o'clock in the forenoon, and once after the hour of four o'clock in the afternoon,

such poundkeeper shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty dollars.