New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

Inspectors of Stock

Inspectors of Stock.

9.	The Governor from time to time may appoint a Chief InspectorInspectors of Stock to be appointed or removed, &c. of Stock for each district, and an Inspector or Inspectors of Stock for each subdivision, and such other officers as he may deem necessary, and from time to time may remove any person so appointed. Any Chief Inspector may be appointed to more districts than page 6one, and any Inspector to more subdivisions than one, and irrespective of the district wherein any such subdivision is situate. Every Chief Inspector shall reside within the district or one of the districts to which he shall have been appointed, and every Inspector in the subdivision or one of the subdivisions to which he shall have been appointed. No Inspector shall himself be a sheepowner within the district to which he is appointed.
10.	Power of Inspector to enter on lands. Any Inspector, at such times as he may think fit, and for any purposes of this Act, may inspect any sheep within his district or subdivision; and, for the purposes of such inspection, or for the purpose of inspecting and examining any dipping-apparatus, or for doing any other act which he is authorised or empowered to do by this Act, shall, at all reasonable times, have free ingress, egress, and regress through, over, and upon any premises, lands, or tenements whatsoever.
11.	Penalty for obstructing inspection. Every owner ot any sheep or any other person who refuses to allow such inspection to be made by any Inspector, or obstructs, or, without reasonable cause, refuses or neglects to muster his sheep for the purpose of such inspection with all convenient speed, or to afford all reasonable facilities for making such inspection to such Inspector, is liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.
12.	Inspector may require declaration from owner. Any Inspector, when it appears to him to be necessary for the purpose of enabling him to decide satisfactorily upon the condition of any sheep, may call upon the owner of such sheep to makeSchedule B. a declaration in the form or to the effect specified in Schedule B to this Act; and every such owner who refuses or neglects to make such declaration when so called upon is liable to a penalty not exceedingPenalty for refusing to make declaration. fifty pounds nor less than ten pounds; and every person who makes any such declaration, knowing the same to be false, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.
13	Power of Inspector to call for evidence corroborative of declaration made. Any Inspector before whom any of the declarations referred to in any section of this Act have been made, in any case in which he deems it necessary so to do, may call upon the person making such declaration to furnish to such Inspector evidence corroborative of the truth of the statements made in such declaration; and, unless such evidence is produced as shall be satisfactory to such Inspector, and also unless such Inspector is satisfied that the sheep referred to in any such declaration are not infected sheep, he shall refuse to grant a clean certificate.
14.	Penalty for refusal by persons in charge of sheep to give evidence. Any Inspector may call upon all persons concerned in the charge, control, or management of any sheep to give evidence before him as to the facts within their knowledge relating to such sheep; and every person who, after being so called upon, refuses or neglects to give such evidence, or refuses or neglects to answer any inquiries put to him by such Inspector under the authority of this Act, is liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.
15.	Penalty for giving false evidence. Every person who, in answering such inquiries, or in giving evidence under the last two preceding sections of this Act, makes any statement knowing the same to be false, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds, or to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding page 7six months; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to require any person to give any evidence or answer any inquiry which would render him liable to any criminal prosecution.
16.	Every Inspector appointed as hereinbefore provided, whoFalse report or certificate by Inspector. wilfully makes any false report, or delivers any false certificate as to the condition of any sheep examined by him, is liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds nor less than twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months.
17.	Every Inspector who, under colour of his office or employment,Penalty for Inspector taking undue fees. exacts or accepts any fee or reward whatsoever other than his authorised salary or allowance, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds; and his office shall, on his conviction of such offence, become ipso facto vacant.
18.	No action or other proceeding against any inspector orProtection of officers in execution of Act. other officer in respect of any act, matter, or thing connected with the execution of his duty under this Act shall be entertained or prosecuted unless the same be commenced within six months after the cause of action or proceeding arose.
19.	There shall be published once m every three months, in oneList of' diseased flocks to be published every three months and in Gazette. or more newspapers within the district, and in the Gazette, a list, certified by the Chief Inspector of the district, of all runs on which there are at that time any infected sheep, and of the particular flock or flocks which are so infected.
20.	The Chief Inspector or each district shall have a brand notInspectors to have official brands. similar to any one already registered (hereafter called an "official brand"), which shall be registered by him in the general register of brands kept in the chief office of the brands registration district, constituted under "The Brands and Branding Act, 1880," wherein is situate the said Chief Inspector's office, and shall also be similarly registered in the general register of brands of every brands registration district forming part of or adjoining the aforesaid Chief Inspector's district. The official brand of any Chief Inspector shall be used exclusively by all Inspectors within such Chief Inspector's district in manner as may be appointed by this Act, or by direction of the Chief Inspector of the district. Every person who, wilfully and without authority, uses any official brand, or any brand so similar as not readily to be distinguished therefrom, is liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds nor less than twenty-five pounds.