Impounding Act 1955

Fees, rates, and charges

16: Trespass rates

You could also call this:

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

If you own stock that trespasses, you have to pay trespass rates. You pay these rates as set by regulations made under this Act. The amount you pay depends on the type of stock and the land or crop it trespassed on.

You pay the rates to the local authority if your stock is in a pound. If not, you pay the rates directly to the person who looks after your stock or the occupier. The rates might be double in some cases, as set by the regulations.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

15A: Regulations as to trespass rates, or

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

17: Special trespass rates for entire animals, or

"Paying for animals that wander onto someone else's land"

Part 4Fees, rates, and charges

16Trespass rates

Where trespass rates are payable under this Act, the owner of the stock trespassing shall pay the rates prescribed by regulations made under this Act (or at double those rates where double rates are payable) according to the description of the stock trespassing and according to the description of land or crop trespassed on; and those rates shall be payable to the local authority in the first instance where the stock is impounded in a pound, or direct to the occupier or person having charge of the stock in any other case.

Compare

1908 No 79 ss 24, 26, 27

Notes

Section 16: amended, on 1 April 1981, by section 10(1) of the Impounding Amendment Act 1980 (1980 No 59).