The Cattle-Trespass Act

Title and extent

[Repealed.]

Interpretation clause

Establishment of pounds

Control of pounds

Appointment of pound-keepers. Pound-keepers may hold other offices. Pound-keepers to be public servants

To keep registers and furnish returns

To register seizures

To take charge of and feed cattle

Cattle damaging land

Cattle damaging public roads, canals and embankments

Fines for cattle impounded

Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays fines and charges

Procedure if cattle be not claimed within a week

Delivery to owner disputing legality of seizure but making deposit

Procedure when owner refuses or omits to pay the fines and expenses

Disposal of fines, expenses and surplus proceeds of sale

Officers and pound-keepers not to purchase cattle at sales under Act

Power to make complaints

Procedure on complaint

Compensation for illegal seizure or detention

Recovery of compensation

Penalty for forcibly opposing the seizure of cattle or rescuing the same

Recovery of penalty for mischief committed by causing cattle to trespass

Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs

Penalty on pound-keeper failing to perform duties

Application of fines recovered under section 25, 26 or 27

Saving of right to sue for compensation

Set-off

Power for State Government to transfer certain functions to local authority

All sections

 1 [1. Title and extent.--(1) This Act may be called the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871; and

(2) It extends to the whole of India except 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st
November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States], and the presidency-towns and such local areas as the
State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may from time to time exclude from its
operation.

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