New Zealand. Analysis.

	Title.
1.	Short Title.
2.	Saving of Diseased Cattle Acts.

Preliminary.

3	Interpretation. Schedule A.
4	Governor may declare diseases affecting sheep.
5	Governor may make regulations, &c.
6	Districts and subdivisions.
7	Governor to declare infected and clean districts. Runs on borders of different districts.
8	Former appointments, districts, and regulations validated.

Inspectors of Stock.

9	Inspectors of Stock to be appointed or removed, &c.
10	Power of Inspector to enter on lands.
11	Penalty for obstructing inspection.
12	Inspector may require declaration from owner. Schedule B. Penalty for refusing to make declaration.
13	Power of Inspector to call for evidence corroborative of declaration made.
14	Penalty for refusal by persons in charge of sheep to give evidence.
15	Penalty for giving false evidence.
16	False report or certificate by Inspector.
17	Penalty for Inspector taking undue fees.
18	Protection of officers in execution of Act.
19	List of diseased flocks to be published every three months and in Gazette.
20	Inspectors to have official brands.

Rate Upon Sheep.

21	Return of sheep to be furnished annually to Inspector. Schedule C.
22	Yearly rate to be paid by owner of sheep.

Possession of Infected Sheep.

23	Inspector to take immediate possession of infected sheep, and clean the same at expense of owner.
24	Infected sheep may be destroyed. Compensation.
25	Compensation-moneys to be deemed part of cost of administration of Act.
26	Scabby sheep to be branded "S."Separation of rams from ewes.
27	License of run may be suspended without compensation if sheep infected.
28	Owners of infected sheep to give notice of disease.
29	Infected sheep to be kept in enclosures or shepherded.
30	Owner having several flocks depasturing on same run and one is infected.
31	Penalty for abandoning infected sheep.
32	Penalty for removing skins taken from infected sheep.
33	Infected sheep in pound or public yards may be destroyed.

Introduction of Sheep by sea from Within the Colony.

34	Landing sheep without certificate, or landing infected sheep.
35	Inspector's certificate under preceding section. Schedule D.
36	Penalty on master of vessel for allowing sheep to be landed without permission.
37	Sheep introduced by sea to be dipped within certain limits.
38	Sheep examined for importation to be branded with Inspector's brand.
39	Governor, by Order in Council, may permit sheep arriving coastwise to be landed without inspection in certain cases.

Introduction of Sheep from Australasia.

40	Restrictions in landing sheep from Australasian Colonies.
41	Penalty on master of vessel landing sheep.
42	Governor may relax restrictions.

Removal of Sheep from one District to Another.

43	Sheep from clean district to any other district. General restriction on removal of sheep.
44	Sheep from infected district to infected district.
45	Sheep from infected district to clean district.
46	Inspector's certificate under preceding section. Schedule D.
47	Sheep from infected to clean district to be dipped within certain limits.
48	Places may be proclaimed on the inland boundaries of districts, at which all sheep shall be introduced.

Sheep Infected with Lice.

49	Notice to dip sheep infected with lice. Penalty for neglect to dip after notice.
50	Penalty for removing sheep infected with lice.
51	If sheep infected with lice found in public yard, &c, owner liable to penalty.
52	Ewes need not be dipped during lambing-time.
53	Owner of sheep must prepare dip.

Driving, Etc., Sheep.

54	Driving, &c., of infected sheep.
55	No sheep to be driven through any infected run, under penalty.
56	Infected sheep trespassing may be returned to owners. Proviso.page 2
57	Separate informations for every run, &c., crossed.
58	Notice to be given before driving sheep across run.
59	Occupier may, without warrant, inspect sheep on his run.

Protection of Angora Goats.

60	Angora goats to be deemed sheep, and not to be destroyed as goats.

Miscellaneous.

61	Infected sheep trespassing and not removed may bo destroyed.
62	Infected sheep not to be thrown into ponds, &c.
63	Sheep dying of catarrh to be burnt or buried.
64	Recovery of strayed sheep.
65	Unauthorised removal of sheep.
66	Notice to be given before mustering sheep.
67	Sheep to be wool-branded forthwith after shearing.
68	Wilfully communicating scab or catarrh.
69	Falsification of return.
70	Saving other remedies at law to persons suffering damage.
71	Penalty for removing more than one-third of the ear of sheep.
72	Tattoo-marks and ear-marks on sheep.
73	Penalty for defacing tattoo-marks or earmarks, or ear-cropping sheep.
74	Saving of operation of section 72.
75	Offences prosecuted summarily.
76	Persons interested or Inspectors to prosecute.
77	Not necessary to prove every sheep infected in order to recover penalty.
78	Onus of proof upon defendant, who shall be competent witness.
79	Who shall be taken as owner of sheep.
80	Sheep to be goods and chattels of person against whom conviction is made.
81	Fees, fines, &c., to be paid into Consolidated Fund.
82	Repeals. Schedule E. Schedules.