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LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 214 Travelling cattle

LAND ACT 1958 - SECT 214

Travelling cattle

S. 214(1) amended by No. 8461 s. 37.

    (1)     Every traveller may while he is travelling depasture his cattle and sheep unless the same are affected with any contagious or infectious disease upon any unsold Crown lands within 400 metres on either side of any road or track commonly used as a thoroughfare whether such lands are or are not comprised in any common but such cattle and sheep shall be driven every day towards the place of their destination the distance as hereinafter provided.

S. 214(2) amended by No. 8461 s. 37.

    (2)     The provisions of the last preceding subsection shall not apply to the counties enumerated in the Ninth Schedule or to any counties or districts added thereto as hereinafter provided, but such travellers may within such counties and districts depasture their cattle upon any unsold Crown lands within 400 metres of any surveyed road, but the Governor in Council may by proclamation in the Government Gazette proclaim that all or any of such counties shall be subject to the provisions aforesaid and thereupon they shall be subject to such provisions accordingly.

    (3)     The Governor in Council may by proclamation published in the Government Gazette add any counties or districts in such proclamation named and described to the list of counties in the said Schedule and may at any time annul any such proclamation notice whereof shall be published as aforesaid, but no proclamation made under the provisions of this section shall be of any force or effect until one month after the date of such proclamation thereof.

    (4)     The Governor in Council may by order published in the Government Gazette direct that subsection (1) shall not apply to any reserved forest or any part of a reserved forest as defined by the Forests Act 1958 and any such order may at any time be revoked by the Governor in Council.

No. 3709 s. 178.