SHEEP ACT 1878 AMENDMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2363, 3 August 1886, Page 2

SHEEP ACT 1878 AMENDMENT.

1. The short titlo of this Act is " The Sheep Act 1878 Amendment Act. 188(5" It Bliull be read together with "The Sheop Act, 1878," herein referred to as "the said Act." 2. Notwithstanding anything contained in tho said Act, or any notice given thereunder, it shall not k necessary to dip any ewe during such time previous to or after her lambing as the Inspector may appoint; and for such purpose any Inspector may, in respect of ewes, oxtond any notice to dip for audi time as he may think fit. 3. Section thirty•ei?ht of tho said Act' is hereby amended by the omission of the words " ten days" in tho two subsections thereof, and the substitution of tho words " twenty-eiyht iliys" in lieu thereof. But this provision shall not have effect with respect to any ahucp introduced by sea into any district and found to be infocted, nor to sheep bo introduced from auy infected district. 4. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 40 of tho said Act, when two adjoining districts are both clean districts, the Governor may from time to rime, by order published in the Gazette, declare that during the period thorein mentioned sheep may be introduced by land li'om one such district to tho other such district without giyiuj* to the Inspector the notice niei'tiuned m the Baid section, and any such order may at any time b» revoked.

B, If any Inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep in a flock are infected with lice, he shall givo tho ownor a written notiee to dip such sheep forthwith to the satisfaction of tho said Inspector or any other Inspector; and, if such owner refuses, neglects or fails to comply with such notioe within a period of one month from the giving thereof, he shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not less than five pounds nor more mora than fifty pounds. If after the expiration of threo mouths from the dato of such conviction sueh sheep shall not be dipued'to the satisfaction of any inspector, such owner shall, upon conviction, be liable to a further penalty of not less than twenty pounds, nor more than fifty pounds; and so on for oach and every succeeding period of three months.

(i. Sections thirty-three and forty-five shall respectfully apply, miiktitMutandis, to all sheep infected with lice aftov any notice is given to the owner thereof to dip the same, as mentionod in the lad preceding section, and until the luspector has sriven such owner a certiGcate that such sheep have been properly dipped and in respect of ever parson who drives or depastures, or suffers such sheep to stray as meutionod in the aforesaid seotfmi forty-five: Provided that for the purpose of this section, the aforesaid section forty-five shall be read as if the words "one pound" and "five pounds" had been inserted therein in the place of the words "five pounds" and "'ono hundred pounds" respectively. 7 If any sheep infected with lice shall bs found in any pounds, or in any public yard or yards, or in any yard or yards at which Bhoep arc offered for sale, the owner of the sheep so infected shall be liable to a penalty not less than one pound nor more than five pounds. 8 The owner of any sheep infected with lice who has been required to dip the same, or the purchaser of such sheep for the said owner, or any subsoquout purchaser thereof, may at any time before tho expiration of twenty-eight days from the giving of such noHce deposit with the Inspector a statutory declaration made by such owner or purchaser, under" The Justices of tho Peaco Act, 1882," that the sheep so infected are intended for sale and slaughter, and thernupon he shall bo exempted from any penalty to whieh he might he liable in respect of not dipping such sheep as required; but if at the end of twenty-one days after tho making of such declaration aforesaid the said sheep are not slaughtered, then and in such oase the then owner thereof shall ba deemed to have neglected to comply with a notice to dip suoh Bheep, and shall be liable to tho pmialties provided in section i five, notwithstanding that he may not be the person upon whom any notice to dip such sheep has been actually served. 9 Sections sixty-eight and flirty-nine of tho said Act are hereby repealed. " The' Sheep Act Amendment Act, 1881," and "The Sheep Act 1878 Amendment Aob, 1884," are also hereby repealed.