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 11: Cattle damaging public roads, canals and embankments.
    1[11. Cattle damaging public roads, canals and embankments.--Persons in charge of public roads, pleasure-grounds, plantations, canals, drainage-works, embankments and the like and officers of police, may seize or cause to be seized any cattle doing damage to such roads, grounds, plantations, canals, drainage-works, embankments and the like, or the sides or slopes of such roads, canals, drainage-works or embankments or found straying thereon,
     and shall 2[send them or cause them to be sent within twenty-four hours] to the nearest pound.
Notes:
1. As to the application of s. 11 to forests, see the Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 70; to railways see the Indian Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890), s. 125 (f).
2. Subs. by Act 1 of 1891, s. 4, for "take them without unnecessary delay".
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