SHEEP ACT AMENDMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1946, 25 December 1884, Page 4

SHEEP ACT AMENDMENT.

Trm following is a ti-xt of the principal eluiscs of the ineasuie p,is=ed last session to proude for the desti action of lice in sheep :—: — 1. The short title of tin's Act is the Sheep Act 1878 Amendment Act, ISS4. It shall lie read and confined together with the Sheep Act, 1878 (herein referred to as " the bawl act.") 2. If any inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep in a Hock are infected •with lice, he shall give the owner i wiitten notice to dip each sheep forth"v lth to the satisfaction of the said Inspector, or any other Inspector ; and if such owner lefuses, neglects, or fails to comply with such notice within a peiiod of one month fiom the giving theieof, lie shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not less than five pounds nor moic than fifty pounds. If after the expiration of three months from the dite of such conviction such sheep shall not be dipped to the satisfaction of any Inspector, such owner shall, upon com iction, be liable to a fuither penalty of not less than twenty pounds., nor more th in fifty pounds ; <uid so on for every succeeding period of three months en th. 3. Sections thiity tin cc and forty-five of the said Act shall lespectively apply, mutatis mutiiinlit, to all sheep infected with lice after any notice is given to the owner thcirof 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 even ju-iFon who drives oi depastures, or suffers such sheep to shay as in the aforesaid fifty-hfti) section mentioned. 4. .Section sixty-eight of the said Act is hereby repealed. 5. If any sheep infectod with lice shall be found in any pound, or in any public yaid or yards, or in any yard or yards at which sheep ate offered for sale, the owner of the sheep so infected shall be liable to a penalty of not le«s than one pound, nor more than five pounds.

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