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HEALTH (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1911 - SECT 132

132 .         Power to seize and destroy pigs etc. trespassing on rivers etc.

        (1)         Any local government may cause to be conspicuously posted up in the neighbourhood of any water supply notice that the water thereof is required for drinking purposes, and that pigs, dogs, ducks, and geese are prohibited from trespassing thereon.

        (2)         If after the posting up of such notice any person suffers or permits any pigs, dogs, ducks, or geese to trespass on any such water supply, or the catchment area thereof, such person commits an offence.

        (3)         If any pigs, dogs, ducks, or geese shall after the posting up of a notice as aforesaid trespass on any such water supply, then the local government may cause any pigs, dogs, ducks, or geese so trespassing to be destroyed or seized and sold and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the funds of such local government.

        [Section 132, formerly section 113, amended: No. 30 of 1932 s. 19; renumbered as section 132: No. 38 of 1933 s. 42; amended: No. 80 of 1987 s. 28; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]



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