Impounding Act 1955

Provisions for stock found straying or wandering on roads, and for wild stock - Special provisions as to stock too wild to impound

38: Wild stock trespassing on land

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"What to do if wild animals are on your land without permission"

If you own land and wild stock is trespassing on it, you can ask your local authority for help. They will put up a public notice telling the owner of the stock to remove it from your land within 7 days. You will need to pay for the cost of putting up the notice. The notice will warn the owner that if the stock is not removed within 7 days, it will be sold at a public auction. If the stock is not removed, the local authority can sell it at the auction, and the money from the sale will be handled in the same way as if the stock had been impounded.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

37: Stock to be delivered up on payment of expenses before impounding, or

"Get your seized stock back by paying costs before it's impounded"

39: Purchaser of wild stock may pursue and take the same, or

"Buyer of wild animals can collect them from the land they are on"

Part 6Provisions for stock found straying or wandering on roads, and for wild stock
Special provisions as to stock too wild to impound

38Wild stock trespassing on land

Where stock is trespassing on land, and cannot be impounded because of its wildness, the local authority within whose district the land is situated shall, at the request of the occupier of the land, and the tender of the cost and expense of the advertisement, forthwith cause a public notice to be advertised calling on the owner of the stock to remove the same from the land where it is trespassing, and warning him that if it is not removed within 7 days from the date of the advertisement of the notice it will be sold by public auction at the time and place specified in the notice.
Where the stock has not been removed within the said 7 days the local authority may cause it to be sold by public auction at the time and place so specified, and every such sale shall be conducted, and the proceeds of the sale shall be applied, in the same manner as provided in this Act in respect of the sale of impounded stock not released from the pound.

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