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IMPOUNDING OF LIVESTOCK ACT 1994 - SECT 5 Power to impound livestock found trespassing

IMPOUNDING OF LIVESTOCK ACT 1994 - SECT 5

Power to impound livestock found trespassing

    (1)     An authorised person may impound livestock found trespassing.

    (2)     The following are authorised persons

        (a)     an authorised officer of a council if the livestock are trespassing on land vested in or under the care and management of that council;

        (b)     an owner or occupier of any land if the livestock are trespassing on that land or on a road adjoining that land;

S. 5(2)(c) amended by Nos 12/2004 s. 159(b), 49/2019 s. 186(Sch.  4 item 22.3).

        (c)     an authorised officer of the Department of Transport if the livestock are trespassing on or near a freeway or an arterial road within the meaning of the Road Management Act 2004 ;

        (d)     an authorised officer if the livestock are trespassing on Crown land;

S. 5(2)(e) inserted by No. 102/1998 s. 42.

        (e)     in the case of the Link road or the Extension road within the meaning of the Melbourne City Link Act 1995 , a person authorised by the relevant corporation within the meaning of that Act if the livestock are trespassing on or near that road.

    (3)     Despite subsection (2), for the purposes of impounding livestock, an authorised officer of a council may—

        (a)     enter onto any land at the request of the owner or occupier; or

        (b)     enter onto Crown land at the request of an authorised officer.

S. 5A inserted by No. 65/2007 s. 49.