New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95
Removal of Sheep From one District to Another
Removal of Sheep From one District to Another.
43. | Sheep from clean district to any other district. Any sheep may be removed by land from a clean district to any other district without any notice being given to any Inspector of the intention so to remove them. |
But it shall not be lawful for any person—
(1.) For a period of two years after any sheep district is proclaimed a clean district, to | General restriction on removal of sheep. remove any sheep from such district, or |
(2.) |
To remove any sheep which are depasturing on any run adjoining an infected run, page 14unless he has obtained from an Inspector a written permit to remove such sheep; and the Inspector may refuse to grant such permit until such sheep are dipped to his satisfaction. Every person who offends against the provisions of this section is liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds nor less than ten pounds. |
44. |
Sheep from infected district to infected district.
It shall not be lawful for any person to introduce by land any sheep from an infected district into an infected district unless he holds a clean certificate for such sheep, and unless he has given to the Inspector of the district into which they are to be introduced at least seven days' previous notice of his intention so to introduce them, stating in such notice the number of such sheep, and the point at which and the day on which it is intended they shall cross the boundary of the district. Every person who offends against the provisions of this section is liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds nor less than ten pounds. |
45. |
Sheep from infected district to clean district.
It shall not be lawful for any person to introduce by land any sheep from an infected district into a clean district, unless within fourteen days previous to such introduction such sheep have been examined by an Inspector and he has granted a clean certificate for the same, nor unless such person has given to the Inspector of the district into which such sheep are to be introduced at least seven days' previous notice of his intention so to introduce them, stating in such notice the number of such sheep, and the point at which and the day on which it is intended they shall cross the boundary of the district. Every person who offends against the provisions of this section is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds, and, in the case of the number of sheep exceeding one hundred, then to a further penalty not exceeding one pound nor less than five shillings for every sheep so introduced contrary to the provisions of this section. The before-mentioned certificate may be lodged with the Inspector of the district in which the sheep were introduced, and if not so lodged shall at any time within two months after the date thereof be produced by the owner of such sheep to any Inspector, Justice of the Peace, constable, or sheepowner demanding the same, under a penalty of five pounds. |
46. |
Inspector's certificate under preceding section.
It shall not be lawful for any Inspector to grant the clean certificate mentioned in the last-preceding section until the person or one of the persons for whom or on whose account the sheep are required to be introduced has made before such Inspector, or a Justice of the Peace, a declaration in the form or to the effect ofSchedule D. Schedule D to this Act, and has produced to such Inspector satisfactory evidence that such sheep have not within the last-preceding three months been infected, nor mixed with sheep so infected, nor have undergone any dressing or dipping for the cure of scab, nor been depastured on any run whereon there were at the same time depastured any infected sheep, nor been in any yard, vessel, or truck wherein there were any infected sheep.
Every person who makes any such declaration, the same being untrue, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds, or to be im-page 15prisoned for a period not exceeding six months. And every Inspector who grants any such certificate, without first obtaining such declaration and receiving such evidence as aforesaid, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds. For the purposes of this section, any sheep which are dipped or dressed without the previous written permission of the Inspector being obtained for such dipping or dressing shall be deemed to be dipped or dressed for the cure of scab. |
47. | When any sheep are introduced by land from any infectedSheep from infected to clean district to be dipped within certain limits. district into any clean district, it shall not be lawful for such sheep to be driven, depastured, or suffered to stray to or at a greater distance within the said clean district than three miles from the part of the boundary of the said district at which such sheep are introduced, until such sheep have been effectually dipped at least twice within fourteen days from the date of their being so introduced, to the satisfaction of an Inspector, and until the owner of such sheep has received from such Inspecter a certificate to that effect; and, for the better and more effectual dipping of any sheep so introduced, such Inspector, if he shall see fit, may order the same to be shorn previously to such dipping; and, for every day during which any sheep shall be driven, depastured, or suffered to stray in contravention of the provisions of this section, the owner of such sheep shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds. |
48. | The Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation toPlaces may be proclaimed on the inland boundaries of districts, at which all sheep shall be introduced. be published in the Gazette, appoint one or more place or places, at or adjacent to the inland boundaries of any district, at some one or other of which places all sheep to be introduced by land into any such district shall be crossed over such boundaries, and no sheep shall be introduced by land into any district unless at some one of such places; and every person crossing sheep over any such boundary at any other place than the one which shall have been so appointed shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds. |