Enclosed Lands Protection Act 1943

Any owner, occupier, or person in charge of enclosed land may destroy any goat (other than a goat that is legibly branded or that has around its neck a collar on which the name and address of its owner is legibly engraved) found trespassing on the land.

Dictionary (see s 2)

Note 1 The Legislation Act contains definitions and other provisions relevant to this Act.

Note 2 For example, the Legislation Act, dict, pt 1, defines the following terms:

• ACT

• home address

• land

• person (see s 160).

enclosed lands means any lands, whether public or private, enclosed or surrounded with any fence, wall or other erection, or partly by a fence, wall or other erection, and partly by a canal or by some natural feature (for example, a river or cliff) by which the boundaries of those lands may be known or recognised and, if a road is lawfully enclosed with the lands of any person, those lands, but not the road, shall be deemed, for this Act, the enclosed lands of that person.

Note An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).

road means any land proclaimed, dedicated, resumed or otherwise provided as a public thoroughfare or way and any land defined, reserved or left as a road in any subdivision of lands.

stock includes horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs.