Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The local
government having the care, control, and management of a public pound shall
cause it to be properly enclosed, and so adapted that provision is made for
keeping cattle with contagious or infectious diseases segregated from cattle
free from those diseases while impounded.
(2) The keeper of a
public pound commits an offence if he —
(a) does
not keep the pound clean and in good repair;
(b)
knowingly keeps or permits to be kept in the pound cattle infected with a
contagious or infectious disease in the same enclosure with cattle not so
infected;
(c) does
not supply the cattle for the time being impounded with a sufficiency of
wholesome food at least twice a day, once before 9 a.m., and once after 4
p.m.; or
(d)
accepts cattle into the pound when the holding capacity of the pound is
exhausted.
Penalty: $40.
[Section 452 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 4(1); No. 81 of 1972 s. 20; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]