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NORFOLK ISLAND
Pasturage and Enclosure Act 1949
No. 4, 1949
Compilation No. 3
Compilation date: 19 December 2020
Includes amendments up to: Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015 (No. 2, 2015) as amended up to Norfolk Island Continued Laws Amendment (Traffic and Other Measures) Ordinance 2020 (F2020L01644)
NORFOLK ISLAND
PASTURAGE AND ENCLOSURE ACT 1949
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
1. Citation 2. Repeal 3. Commencement 4. Definitions 5. Application for right of pasturage 6. Conditions upon which right of pasturage may be granted 7. Issue of identifying numbers 8. Chief Executive Officer may prohibit particular animals being depastured 9. Certain animals not to be depastured 10. Stock not to be on land not sufficiently enclosed 11. Depasturing of sheep 11A. Straying stock deemed to be under control of Administration 12. Penalties 13. Regulations Schedule
NORFOLK ISLAND
Pasturage and Enclosure Act 1949
An Act relating to pasturage and enclosure
Citation 1. This Act may be cited as the Pasturage and Enclosure Act 1949.
Repeal 2. (1) The Acts specified in the Schedule are repealed. (2) A right of pasturage granted under any Act repealed by this Act and in force at the commencement of this Act shall continue in force until 31 December 1949.
Commencement 3. This Act shall commence on 1 December 1949.
Definitions 4. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — "cattle proof fence" includes any fence registered under the Fencing Act 1913, and any wall, ditch, or other artificial or natural obstruction which would serve, under normal conditions, to exclude quiet cattle; "right of pasturage" means a right to depasture and water horses or cattle on any land (whether the property of a private person or of a corporation or of the Crown) which is not enclosed by a cattle proof fence; "sheep proof fence" means a fence, ditch, wall or other artifical or natural obstruction which would serve, under normal conditions, to exclude quiet sheep; "stock" means horses or cattle; "sufficiently enclosed" means enclosed by a cattle proof fence; "tag" includes a disc issued under this Act before the commencement of the Pasturage and Enclosure Act 1979.
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