Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) If cattle have not been released from the pound within 14 days after the giving or publication of the notice mentioned in section 27, the cattle shall be sold by public auction at the pound.
(2) The sale shall be made on the first day after the end of the 14 days mentioned in subsection (1) that the Minister or a person authorised by the Minister determines by notice published in a newspaper published in the ACT to be a day when a sale shall be held at the pound.
(3) At the sale, the poundkeeper shall act as auctioneer, and the sale shall begin at the hour of noon.
(4) At any sale held under this section not more than 1 head of great cattle nor more than 10 sheep or goats shall be sold in a single lot, but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a cow with her calf or a mare with her foal from being sold in a single lot.
(5) The poundkeeper shall neither in person nor by his or her agent purchase any cattle at the sale or have any interest of any kind in cattle so purchased.