Impounding Act 1955

Remedies for stock trespassing - Impounding trespassing stock

25: Occupier may restore trespassing stock to owner

You could also call this:

"Returning trespassing animals to their owner and getting paid back"

If stock trespasses on your land, you can return it to its owner. You can ask the owner to pay you for any trespass rates that would have been owed if the stock was impounded, as well as the costs of taking the stock back to the owner's place. You can take the owner to court to get this money if they do not pay you.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

24: Occupier may impound on his own land stock trespassing thereon, or

"You can catch and keep animals that wander onto your land, but you must follow the rules."

26: Damages for trespass, or

"Getting paid for damage caused by animals trespassing on your land"

Part 5Remedies for stock trespassing
Impounding trespassing stock

25Occupier may restore trespassing stock to owner

The occupier of any land trespassed on by stock may restore the stock to its owner, and in such a case may demand, and in case of non-payment recover as a debt, from the owner of the stock the amount of any trespass rates that would be payable if the stock was impounded for trespass, together with the charges for leading, driving, or conveying the stock to the residence of the owner.

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1908 No 79 s 13