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

Introduction of Sheep by sea Feom Within the Colony

Introduction of Sheep by sea Feom Within the Colony.

34. Landing sheep without certificate, or landing infected sheep.

Every person who himself, or by means of any agent or servant, lands or causes to be landed in any district from any ship, boat, or other vessel any infected sheep, or so lands any sheep whatever, unless within ten days previously to such landing they have been inspected by an Inspector, and unless such person has received from such Inspector a clean certificate for such sheep, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds; and for every day during which such sheep so landed in contravention of the provisions of this section shall be driven, depastured, or suffered to stray within any district, the owner thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

The aforesaid clean certificate may be lodged with the Inspector of the district in which the sheep were landed, and if not so lodged shall, at any time within six 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.

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35.
No Inspector shall grant the clean certificate mentioned inInspector's ce'rtificate under preceding section. the last-preceding section until the person or one of the persons for whom or on whose account the sheep are required to be landed has made before such Inspector, or before a Justice of the Peace, a declaration in the form or to the effect specified in Schedule D to thisSchedule D. Act, and has produced to such Inspector satisfactory evidence that such sheep have not within the three months then last preceding been infected, nor mixed with sheep so infected, nor have undergone any dipping or dressing 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 imprisoned 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.

36.Every master, owner, or supercargo of any ship, boat, orPenalty on master of vessel for allowing sheep to be landed without permission. other vessel who permits any sheep to be landed therefrom before they have been inspected by an Inspector, or without the written permission of an Inspector, is liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.
37.When any sheep are introduced by sea from within theSheep introduced by sea to be dipped within certain limits colony into any district, they shall be inspected without delay either before landing or at the landing-place, and,
(1.)If found not to be infected, and coming from a clean district, they may be driven to some secure place or paddock approved in writing by the Inspector, not being more than twelve miles from the landing-place, and from thence to any other secure places or paddocks within such distance to be approved in writing by the Inspector, and may at any time within twenty-eight days of their landing be slaughtered; and, if not so slaughtered within twenty-eight days, shall forthwith be effectually dipped to the satisfaction of the Inspector, and may thereafter, with the written permission of the Inspector, but not otherwise, be driven to any part of the district.
(2.)If found not to be infected, but coming from an infected district, they may be driven to some secure place, approved in writing by the Inspector, and from thence, with the written permission of the Inspector within twenty-eight days, to any slaughter-yard for the purpose of being slaughtered; and, if such sheep shall not be slaughtered within twenty-eight days of their being landed, they shall be forthwith effectually dipped once or oftener to the satisfaction of the Inspector, and may not be moved to page 12any other part of the district without the written certificate of the Inspector that they have been so dipped.
(3.)If found to be infected, they shall be forthwith taken in a vehicle to some secure place to be appointed by the Inspector, not being more than three miles from the place of landing, and shall there be either immediately slaughtered or effectually dipped twice or oftener, to the satisfaction of the Inspector; and such sheep shall not be removed from such place until the Inspector has granted a clean certificate for the same.

Every person who offends against the provisions of this section is liable to any penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

38.Sheep examined for importation to be branded with Inspector's brand. When any Inspector has examined any sheep with a view to their importation into any district by sea, and shall be prepared to grant a clean certificate for such sheep, he shall, before granting such certificate, cause such sheep to be distinctly wool-branded on the back thereof, at the cost and charges of the owner of such sheep, with the official brand of the Inspector of the district.
39. Governor by Order in Council may permit sheep arriving coastwise to be landed without inspection in certain cases.

The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, suspend the operation of sections thirty-four to thirty-eight, both inclusive, within such districts or parts of districts respectively within the colony, and for such time respectively, as he shall think fit, in respect to sheep bred in the colony and brought by sea from within the colony to be landed in such districts, and in respect to any vessel bringing such sheep; and may from time to time similarly alter or revoke any Order in Council in part or in whole, as to time or place respectively.

The Governor also may, by any such Order in Council, make, alter, or revoke regulations prescribing the conditions upon which sheep brought coastwise from any part within the colony may be landed within any other part thereof, and any such regulations may be made to apply to any vessel and the master or owner thereof bringing sheep coastwise for the purpose of being landed as aforesaid; and also the aforesaid regulations may provide penalties, not exceeding one hundred pounds, for any breach thereof.

Notwithstanding any such Order in Council as aforesaid, sections thirty-four to thirty-eight shall remain in full operation in respect to any sheep brought from within the colony on board any vessel having on board at the same time sheep brought from any place outside of the colony beyond the Australasian Colonies, or which at any time during the previous three months has had on board sheep brought from or shipped at any such place, and in respect to every such vessel, and to the master, owner, or supercargo thereof, respectively.