Impounding Act 1955

Provisions for stock found straying or wandering on roads, and for wild stock - Temporary pounds

32: Temporary pounds

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"A temporary pound is a special fenced area where the local authority can hold seized animals."

When you are dealing with a temporary pound, the local authority can choose a fenced area near a road to be a temporary pound. This is where they can take stock that has been seized under the rules of section 33. You can only put stock that has been seized under these rules into a temporary pound.

The local authority will choose a person to be in charge of each temporary pound. They will put up a notice on the temporary pound that says it is a temporary pound, and it will have the name of the local authority and the name and address of the person in charge.

The same rules that apply to a regular pound will also apply to a temporary pound, including the rules in Parts 3, 4, and Parts 7 to 10, but with some changes to make them work for a temporary pound.

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Part 6Provisions for stock found straying or wandering on roads, and for wild stock
Temporary pounds

32Temporary pounds

The local authority may from time to time, with the consent of the occupier thereof, declare any fenced paddock or yard adjacent to a road to be a temporary pound for use as a place for impounding stock seized for impounding under the provisions of section 33.
No stock other than stock seized for impounding under the provisions of section 33 shall be impounded in a temporary pound.
The local authority shall appoint a keeper for each temporary pound.
The local authority shall cause to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the temporary pound a notice to the effect that it is a temporary pound, and showing the name of the local authority having jurisdiction over that temporary pound, and the name and address of the person appointed by the local authority to act as keeper thereof.
The provisions of Parts 3 and 4 and Parts 7 to 10 shall, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to every temporary pound as if references therein to a pound were references to a temporary pound and as if references therein to a poundkeeper were references to the keeper of a temporary pound.