Pounds Act 1930

This Act may be cited as the Pounds Act 1930.

This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by the Government

Resident by notice in the Gazette.

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

cattle includes any entire horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly or foal, a bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer or calf, and a sheep, camel, ass, mule, goat, pig or buffalo.

inspector means a person appointed under section 4(a) as an inspector for the purposes of this Act.

owner includes the agent, overseer, bailiff or manager for the owner and, where used in reference to land, includes the occupier.

pound means a place established under section 5(a) as a pound or land in respect of which an arrangement has been made under section 5(b) by the Minister or a local government council.

poundkeeper means a person appointed under section 4 as a poundkeeper, and includes a person for the time being authorized to act as the poundkeeper of a pound.

sheep includes any ram, ewe, wether or lamb.

Every pound shall be properly enclosed and shall be kept clean and in good repair by the poundkeeper thereof.

Any cattle for the time being impounded shall be supplied by the poundkeeper with a sufficiency of food and water.

In cases where in any pound there is a separate enclosure in which cattle infected with disease may be kept, cattle infected with any infectious or contagious disease shall not be kept in the same enclosure with cattle not so infected.

Any cattle impounded in a pound which have been certified in writing by an inspector, as defined in the Livestock Act 2008, to be affected with any infectious or contagious disease, may be destroyed by the poundkeeper of the pound or by a member of the Police Force.

There shall be maintained in every pound a constant supply of wholesome water by means of troughs or by any other means in such manner as to afford any cattle impounded therein free access to the water at all times.

A poundkeeper of any pound may take or send any cattle out of the pound at such times and to such places as he thinks fit for the purpose of grazing or watering.

Every poundkeeper shall keep a pound book in accordance with Form A in Schedule 2 and shall make all entries therein without delay.

The poundkeeper of every pound shall keep erected in some conspicuous

part of the pound a board having thereon a notice setting out the fees payable in accordance with or in pursuance of this Act.