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

40: Occupier may destroy wild stock unsold or not removed by purchaser

You could also call this:

"You can get rid of wild animals on your land if they didn't sell or the buyer didn't take them."

If you have wild stock on your land that was put up for sale under section 38, but it didn't sell, you can destroy it. You can also destroy the stock if it was sold, but the buyer didn't take it away from your land within 7 days of the sale. If you destroy the stock in this situation, you won't be responsible for any damage that happens because of it, as stated in section 38.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

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"

41: Stray stock not to be taken away without notice, or

"Don't take stray animals from someone's land without telling them first"

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

40Occupier may destroy wild stock unsold or not removed by purchaser

Where any wild stock has been offered for sale pursuant to subsection (2) of section 38 and has not been sold, or where the stock has been sold but not removed by the purchaser from the land where it is trespassing within 7 days from the date of the sale, the occupier of the land may destroy the stock without being answerable for damage occasioned thereby.

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