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Grazing of cattle or goala.

Restriction

on use of building which cattle,

etc. are kept.

Offences and penalties.

Transitional provisions.

(Schedule A to Ord. 15

of 1935).

13. (1) Save with the permission in writing of the Director, no licensee shall cause or permit any cattle, swine, sheep or goats in his possession to be turned out to graze on any land, other than land occupied by him and which is enclosed by fences.

(2) Where the Director gives his permission under the provision of paragraph (1), the same may be subject to such terms and conditions as the Director thinks fit.

14. A building which has been registered under the provisions of regulation 6 as a building in which cattle, swine, sheep or goats, as the case may be, are kept shall not be used for any purpose other than the housing thereof.

15. (1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 3 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary convic tion to a fine of two thousand dollars.

(2) Any licensee who-

(a) contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 5. 12 or 14 er

of paragraph (1) of regulation 13; or

(b) contravenes any terms or conditions imposed by the Director under the provisions of paragraph (5) of regulation 4 or para- graph (2) of regulation 13,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fioc of one thousand dollars.

(3) In the event of a contravention of any of the provisions of regulation 7. 8 or 9, the licensee shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(4) Where any offence under these regulations is a continuing offence, any person who is guilty of such offence shall, in addition to the penalty provided therefor under the provisions of paragraph (1), (2) or (3), as the case may be, be liable to a line of fifty dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.

PART IV.

Miscellaneous.

16. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), any licence granted under by-law 1 of the cancelled Keeping of Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Goats By-laws which is in force at the commencement of des regulations shall be deemed, for all purposes, to bave been granted under the provisions of regulation 4.

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(2) Any such licence for the keeping of swine shall not expire until the 31st day of December next following the day on which the same would have expired under the provisions of the aforesaid By-laws if the same had not been cancelled.

(3) Nothing in the provisions of this regulation shall be deemed to entitle any person to a refund of the whole or any part of the fee paid in respect of any such licence.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

13th September, 1950.

Explanatory Note.

Liv

Clerk of Councils.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, bur is intended to Indicate their general purport).

Licensing and control of the keeping of cattle, swine, sheep and goats

in the urban areas were provided for by the Keeping of Cattle, Swine, Sheep and Goats By-laws contained in Schedule A to the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935. The Urban Council was the authority.

2. As a consequence of the revision of the legislation regulating matters commested with public health and the repeal of that Ordinance and its replace- ment by the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, it has been decided that the Director of Agriculture and Forestry shall, for the future, be the authority for these matters. These regulations replace the above By-laws which Rill be cancelled by the provisions of section 148 of, and the Eighth Schedule to the Public Healib and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, when the Ordinance comes into operation. The provisions of the regulations, which apply only in the urban areas and do not apply to cattle kept in a dairy, are the same as the provisions formerly contained in the cancelled By-laws.

(Secretariat L/M G. 9507/59)