Buffaloes Act

This Act may be cited as the Buffaloes Act.

"buffalo" includes cattle;

"cattle" means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers and calves.

It shall be the duty of the owner of any savage buffalo to destroy the same forthwith.

In places in which it is customary to plant padi, in the event of any buffalo straying during the padi season on to any cultivated land and committing damage thereon it shall be lawful for any police officer or for the owner or occupier of such land to impound such buffalo when found commit-ting damage as aforesaid.

6of 1908 6 of 1933

(Cap. 59 or 1951)

S.99159

Short title

Interpreta-tion

Savage buffalo

The owner or person in charge of a buffalo shall be Liability for damage done liable for all damage done by such buffalo which may arise by buffaloes fron1 such buffalo not being properly folded, tethered or otherwise kept under control, and may also be charged be-fore the nearest magistrate for permitting the buffalo to stray and, on conviction, shall be liable to a fine of $500, or, in default of payment, imprisonment for 6 weeks.

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Damage done by buf-faloes to roads

Cultivation of lands in graz-ing areas

Provision as to sick or dead buffa-loes

Penalties

Annual cen-sus of huff a-loes

When any damage is done by stray buffaloes to public roads the penghulu of the mukim in which such roads are situate shall direct such of the people of the mukim as own a buffalo or buffaloes to repair such damage, and such person shall be legally bound to obey the directions of the head-man; and any person wilfully refusing to obey the same shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $50.

Nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to dam-age done by buffaloes to lands cultivated in places in which it is customary to graze buffaloes, such lands being culti-vated entirely at the risk of the persons cultivating them who must take such precautions as are necessary to protect their crop.

In the event of any buffalo falling sick, whether such sickness be infectious or not, it shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of such buffalo -

forthwith to report such sickness to the

to· remove such buffalo from the common grazing ground and isolate it.

In the event of the death of any buffalo the own-er or person in charge thereof shall forthwith report the same to the Director of Agriculture and at the nearest police station.

Any owner or person in charge of a buffalo who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of section 3 or 8

shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $500.

In the month of Shaaban in every year the Direc-tor of Agriculture shall take a census of the buffaloes in each district of Brunei.

The headman of every kampong shall, for the purpose of such census, send to the Director of Agriculture a return showing the number of buffaloes in the kampong and the name and residence of the owner of each buffalo.

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Examination

All cattle about to enter Brunei from the country named in the notifi<;ation or about to enter another district of Brunei from the dis-trict named in the notification shall, upon reaching the frontier, be confined in a quaran-tine shed or enclosure for a period of 10 days and shall, at the expiration of such period, be examined by an officer to be appointed by His

Any owner or person in charge of cattle bringing or attempting to bring such cattle into Brunei, or from one

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any cattle in respect of which there is produced by the owner or person in charge a certificate of recent date by a duly qualified veterinary surgeon or medical officer to the effect that the cattle referred to in the certificate are free from contagious and infectious disease.

It shall be lawful for His Majesty in Council from time to time to make and publish rules not inconsistent with the general purposes of this Act and when made cancel, vary or extend the same.

Such rules may provide among other things