SHEEP ACT AMENDMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1277, 13 December 1884, Page 3

SHEEP ACT AMENDMENT.

The following is the text of the principal clauses of the measure passed last session to provide for the destruction of lice in sheep : 1. The short title of this Act is the Sheep Act 1878 Amandmont Act 1884. 2. It shall be read and construed together with the Sheep Act 1878 (herein referred to as " the said Act.") 2. If any Inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep in a flock are infected with lice he "shall give the owner written notice to dip sweh sheep forthwith to the satisfaction of such Inspector or any other Inspector; and if such owner refuses, neglects, or fails to comply with such notice within one month from the giving thereof he shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not less than five pounds and not more than fifty pounds. If after the expiration of three months from the date of such conviction such sheep shall not be dipped to the satisfaction of any Inspector, such owner shall, upon conviction, be liable to a further penalty of not less than twenty pounds, not more than fifty pounds; and. no on for every succeeding period of three months each. 3. Sections thirty-three and forty-five of the said Act she.ll respectively apply, mutatis mutandis, to.all sheep infected with lice after any notice is given to the owner thereof to dip the same as mentioned in the last preceding section, and until the Inspector has given such owner a certificate that such sheep have been properly dipped, and in respect of every person who drives or depastures, or suffers such sheep to stray as in the aforesaid forty-fifth section mentioned. 4. Section sixty-eight of the said Act is hereby repealed. 5. If any sheep infected with lice shall be found in any pound, or in any public yard or yards at which sheep are offered for sale, the owner of the sheep so affected shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound nor more than five pounds.