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IMPOUNDING OF LIVESTOCK ACT 1994 - SECT 25

Offences relating to livestock

A person must not—

        (a)     retrieve or attempt to retrieve livestock in the possession of an authorised person;

        (b)     remove or attempt to remove livestock from a pound;

        (c)     interfere with impounded livestock;

        (d)     damage or attempt to damage a pound;

        (e)     impound livestock unless he or she is an authorised person;

S. 25(f) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 83).

        (f)     when driving or assisting in the driving of livestock

              (i)     refuse to state the name and address of the owner of the livestock; or

              (ii)     give a false name and address of the owner of the livestock

        when requested to do so by a police officer within the meaning of the Victoria Police Act 2013 or a person on whose land the livestock are being driven;

        (g)     drive livestock from a person's land without proper authority;

        (h)     wilfully permit or cause livestock to trespass.

Penalty:     20 penalty units.

S. 25A inserted by No. 65/2007 s. 69, amended by No. 60/2012 s. 14.



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