Impounding Act 1955

Fees, rates, and charges

15A: Regulations as to trespass rates

You could also call this:

"Paying for animals that trespass on someone else's land"

The law says regulations can be made about how much you have to pay if your animals trespass on someone else's land. You can be charged different rates depending on what type of animals are trespassing and what type of land or crops they are damaging. These regulations are made under a part of the law called section 67.

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Topics:

Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

15: Driving charges, or

"Paying to move stock found on roads"

16: Trespass rates, or

"Paying for stock that gets into someone else's property"

Part 4Fees, rates, and charges

15ARegulations as to trespass rates

Without limiting the general power to make regulations conferred by section 67, regulations may be made under that section prescribing the trespass rates payable under this Act.
Any such regulations may prescribe different rates according to the description of the stock trespassing and according to the description of the land or crops trespassed upon.

Notes

Section 15A: inserted, on 1 April 1981, by section 6 of the Impounding Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 59).