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Impounding Act 1955

Fees, rates, and charges

14: Poundage fees and sustenance charges

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"Paying to get your impounded animals back: fees and food costs"

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When stock is impounded, you have to pay a fee, known as a poundage fee. The local authority sets this fee and tells everyone about it. They can set different fees for different types of stock. You also have to pay for the food your stock eats while it is impounded, this is called a sustenance charge. The person who takes your stock to the pound does not have to pay these fees to the local authority.

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Part 4Fees, rates, and charges

14Poundage fees and sustenance charges

  1. The local authority may, by resolution publicly notified, set reasonable poundage fees which shall be recoverable from the owner of stock impounded in its pound.

  2. In setting poundage fees under subsection (1), the local authority may—

  3. set different fees for different classes of stock:
    1. set a graduated scale of fees for the repeated impounding of the stock of any particular owner.

      1. In addition to any poundage fees recoverable by the local authority, that authority may also recover from the owner of stock impounded in its pound the actual costs, reasonably incurred, in the sustenance of the impounded stock of that owner.

      2. The person impounding stock shall not be liable to pay to the local authority any fees or charges recoverable under this section.

      Notes
      • Section 14: replaced, on , by section 4 of the Impounding Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 59).