Impounding Act 1955

Procedure for disposing of unclaimed, suffering, or worthless impounded stock

49: Stock not claimed to be sold at auction

You could also call this:

"What happens to your animals if you don't pick them up before they are sold"

If you have stock in a pound and you do not pick it up before the sale time, it will be sold at a public auction. The sale time is stated in a notice that is mentioned in subsection (2) of section 46. You can find more information about this in the notice.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

48: Hours for release of stock, or

"When you can collect your stock from the pound: weekdays 8am-5pm"

50: Sales of impounded stock, or

"Selling impounded animals: rules for buying and selling stock that's been taken in"

Part 8Procedure for disposing of unclaimed, suffering, or worthless impounded stock

49Stock not claimed to be sold at auction

Where stock has not been released from the pound before the time fixed for the sale thereof in the notice referred to in subsection (2) of section 46, the stock shall be sold by public auction.

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1908 No 79 s 38