Miscellaneous Offences Act (Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act) · s 27

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27.
Public pounds to be provided
(1) Public pounds shall be provided and pound-keepers appointed at such and so many places as the Minister directs and it shall be lawful for the
Minister, by public notification, to fix tables of fees for impounding animals and rates of charges for feeding them during the time they are detained in the pound.
(2) It shall be lawful for all persons, and it is the duty of all police officers, to —
(a) seize all horses, cattle or other animals found straying upon the roads, streets or throughfares, or trespassing on any of the grounds or property of the inhabitants or of the Government; and
(b) impound such animals, and if such animals shall not be respectively redeemed by the owners of the animals within 3 days after being so impounded, they may be sold by public auction by order of the Commissioner of Police, and the proceeds of such sale after deducting the expenses thereof, and paying the fees and expenses of feeding, shall be paid to the owner of the animal, and in default of the same being claimed within 3 months after such sale, they shall be retained by the Commissioner of Police and paid by him into the Treasury.

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(3) Every person taking away any animal so impounded without the authority of the Commissioner of Police is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $500.

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s 27Public pounds to be provided

(1)

Public pounds shall be provided and pound-keepers appointed at such and so many places as the Minister directs and it shall be lawful for the

Minister, by public notification, to fix tables of fees for impounding animals and rates of charges for feeding them during the time they are detained in the pound.

(2)

It shall be lawful for all persons, and it is the duty of all police officers, to —

(a)

seize all horses, cattle or other animals found straying upon the roads, streets or throughfares, or trespassing on any of the grounds or property of the inhabitants or of the Government; and

(b)

impound such animals, and if such animals shall not be respectively redeemed by the owners of the animals within 3 days after being so impounded, they may be sold by public auction by order of the Commissioner of Police, and the proceeds of such sale after deducting the expenses thereof, and paying the fees and expenses of feeding, shall be paid to the owner of the animal, and in default of the same being claimed within 3 months after such sale, they shall be retained by the Commissioner of Police and paid by him into the Treasury.

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(3)

Every person taking away any animal so impounded without the authority of the Commissioner of Police is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $500.