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Impounding Act 1955

Remedies for stock trespassing - Impounding trespassing stock

22: Mode of impounding trespassing stock

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"What to do with animals that are trespassing on someone's land"

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When you find stock trespassing, it must be taken to the nearest pound. You can get to the pound by leading, driving, or taking the stock there. The person who owns the land or their helper can take the stock to the pound.

If the land owner asks, a ranger can take the stock to the pound instead. The local authority must agree to this first. If the stock escapes on the way to the pound and runs onto land without a fence, you can go onto that land to catch the stock.

You can do this yourself or get someone to help you catch the stock that escaped.

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Part 5Remedies for stock trespassing
Impounding trespassing stock

22Mode of impounding trespassing stock

  1. Except as hereinafter provided, stock shall be impounded in the nearest accessible pound to the place where the stock was found trespassing.

  2. The stock may be led, driven, or conveyed to the pound by the occupier of the land trespassed upon or his agent or, if so requested by the occupier and approved by the local authority, by a ranger.

  3. Where the stock, while being taken to a pound, escapes on to any unfenced land, the person taking the stock to the pound or any other person on his behalf may enter upon the land and remove the stock therefrom.

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