Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The local
government having the care, control, and management, of a public pound shall
supply the keeper of it with a copy of this Act and with a pound book having
pages in the form in Part 1 of the Fifteenth Schedule.
(2)(a) The poundkeeper
shall make entries, in a legible handwriting, in the pound book, stating with
respect to cattle impounded in the pound, the particulars indicated in
Part 1 of the Fifteenth Schedule.
(b) A
person to whom cattle impounded in the pound are delivered shall sign the
pound book in the appropriate place.
(c) On
the last day of each month, the poundkeeper shall transmit to the chief
executive officer of the local government, a true copy of the entries made in
the pound book during the month.
(3) The pound book is
the property of the local government.
(4) The poundkeeper
shall deliver the book to the chief executive officer of the local government
whenever required by the local government to do so, and whether so required or
not, immediately prior to ceasing to hold office as poundkeeper.
(5)(a) The poundkeeper
shall keep the pound book and a copy of so much of this Act as relates to
cattle trespass, pounds and poundkeepers, at or near the pound, and shall make
them available for inspection at reasonable times by persons requesting him to
do so.
(b) The
chief executive officer, if required, shall provide extracts from the pound
book and a certificate signed by him that the extracts are from the pound
book, upon payment of 20 cents or such other sum as is prescribed by the
regulations, for every 100 words or part of 100 words of the
extract.
(6) A poundkeeper
commits an offence if he —
(a)
wilfully delays making an entry in the pound book as required by this Act;
(b)
knowingly makes a false entry in the pound book; or
(c)
erases or destroys an entry previously made in the pound book.
[Section 455 amended by No. 113 of 1965
s. 4(1); No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]