Railways.
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Cattle passing over the occupation crossing must not be driven but led by a suitable and properly secured halter. Every person using or attempting to use an occupation crossing without such notice, and every person causing cattle to cross without such halter, and the owner of any cattle so crossing, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment for three months.
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52. (1) The owner of every animal which trespasses or strays upon any railway or upon any railway lands (such railway or lands being provided with suitable fences for excluding cattle) shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each such animal.
Schedule.
Liability of animal
of owner
trespassing.
48 of 1948, Schedule.
(2) It shall be lawful for any railway official to take or drive every animal found so trespassing to the nearest police station, there to be detained until a sum of twenty-five dollars for each such animal and the expenses of feeding and keeping it be deposited or until a magistrate otherwise orders.
(3) Should any such animal prove unmanageable it shall be lawful for any railway official to kill it and the owner shall be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass be proved.
(4) A magistrate may, upon proof of the trespass, cause such animal to be sold by public auction.
(5) Any such deposit or the proceeds of any such sale as aforesaid shall, after deducting therefrom such fine as the magistrate may award and such further sum as he may order to be paid for the expenses of keeping, feeding and, if the animal has been sold, of selling such animal, shall be returned or paid to the owner.
53. Any person who-
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(a) unlawfully and wilfully removes or defaces any number-plate or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway; or
(b) wilfully imitates any railway signal; or
(c) wilfully or negligently damages or injures any carriage, engine, wagon, truck, station, warehouse, bridge, building, machine, rail points, fence or any other matter or thing belonging to the railway,
135
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
Railways.
[CAP. 99
Cattle passing over the occupation crossing must not be driven but led by a suitable and properly secured halter. Every person using or attempting to use an occupation crossing without such notice, and every person causing cattle to cross without such halter, and the owner of any cattle so crossing, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment for three 48 of 1948, months.
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52. (1) The owner of every animal which trespasses or strays upon any railway or upon any railway lands (such railway or lands being provided with suitable fences for excluding cattle) shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each such animal.
Schedule.
Liability of animal
of owner
trespassing.
48 of 1948, Schedule.
(2) It shall be lawful for any railway official to take or drive every animal found so trespassing to the nearest police. station, there to be detained until a sum of twenty-five dollars 48 of 1948, s.5. for each such animal and the expenses of feeding and keeping it be deposited or until a magistrate otherwise orders.
(3) Should any such animal prove unmanageable it shall be lawful for any railway official to kill it and the owner shall be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass be proved.
(4) A magistrate may, upon proof of the trespass, cause such animal to be sold by public auction.
(5) Any such deposit or the proceeds of any such sale as aforesaid shall, after deducting therefrom such fine as the magistrate may award and such further sum as he may order to be paid for the expenses of keeping, feeding and, if the animal has been sold, of selling such animal, shall be returned or paid to the owner.
53. Any person who-
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(a) unlawfully and wilfully removes or defaces any number-plate or removes or extinguishes any lamp on any carriage or signal-post belonging to the railway; or
(b) wilfully imitates any railway signal; or (c) wilfully or negligently damages or injures any carriage, engine, wagon, truck, station, warehouse, bridge, building, machine, rail points, fence or any other matter or thing belonging to the railway,
135
Penalty for injury to carriage, etc.
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