CAP. 168]
Originally 54 of 1911. Fraser
54 of 1911.
Short title.
Impounding stray animal.
[cf. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89, s. 24.]
Pound fees.
Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89, s. 25.]
Pounds.
CHAPTER 168.
POUNDS.
To make provision for impounding stray animals and for the disposal thereof.
[1st December, 1911.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds Ordinance.
2. Any animal found at large without any person having the charge thereof, and which in the opinion of any police officer appears to have been lost or to be doing damage, may be seized by such police officer and impounded in any convenient place, and may be detained therein until the owner thereof has paid to the Commissioner of Police the reasonable expenses of impounding and keeping such animal, together with the pound fee.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations fixing the pound fees for animals generally or for any particular class of animal: Provided however that if no such regulations are made, or if the animal impounded does not fall within any class in respect of which a pound fee has been fixed, the pound fee shall be one dollar.
4.
(1) If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid within three days after such impounding, notice of the intention to sell the animal shall be published in the Gazette.
(2) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal and of the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not paid within seven days after the said publication, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police to cause the animal to be sold either by private treaty or by public auction as he may think fit, and the purchaser thereof shall acquire a good title. If the animal is unsaleable, or if in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police it is an unsaleable animal, it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he may direct.
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CAP. 168]
Originally 54 of 1911. Fraser
54 of 1911.
Short title.
Impounding
stray
animal.
[cf. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89, s. .24.]
Pound fees.
Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 89, s. 25.]
Pounds.
CHAPTER 168.
POUNDS.
To make provision for impounding stray animals and for
the disposal thereof.
[1st December, 1911.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds Ordinance.
2. Any animal found at large without any person having the charge thereof, and which in the opinion of any police officer appears to have been lost or to be doing damage, may be seized by such police officer and impounded in any convenient place, and may be detained therein until the owner thereof has paid to the Commissioner of Police the reasonable expenses of impounding and keeping such animal, together with the pound fee.
3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations fixing the pound fees for animals generally or for any particular class of animal: Provided however that if no such regulations are made, or if the animal impounded does not fall within any class in respect of which a pound fee has beeen fixed, the pound fee shall be one dollar.
4.
(1) If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid within three days after such impounding, notice of the intention to sell the animal shall be published in the Gazette.
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(2) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal and of the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not paid within seven days after the said publica- tion, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police to cause the animal to be sold either by private treaty or by public auction as he may think fit, and the purchaser thereof shall acquire a good title. If the animal is unsaleable, or if in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police it is an unsaleable animal, it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he may direct.
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