Act Number: 1

Act Name: The Cattle-Trespass Act, 1871

Year: 1871

Enactment Date: 1871-01-13

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Trespasses by Cattle.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Section 1: Title and extent.
     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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                                                    STATE AMENDMENT
    Maharashtra.--
    Amendment of section 1 of Act 1 of 1871.--In section 1 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871, in its application to the State I of Bombay (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act"), to sub-section (2) the 1871, following proviso shall be added, namely:--
    "provided that on the commencement of the Cattle-trespass (Bombay Extension and Amendment) Act, 1959 (Bom. XIII of 1959), it shall extend to those areas in which the Hyderabad, Cattle Trespass Act, or as the case may be the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871 (Hyd. Act V of 1837, 1 of 1871), as modified and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay was in force immediately before such commencement."
[Vide Bombay Act XIII of 1959, s. 3]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 1 of 1891, s. 1, for section 1.
2. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part B States".
3. Sub-section (3) rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
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