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 13: Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays fines and charges.
    If the owner of the impounded cattle or his agent appear and claim the cattle, the pound-keeper shall deliver them to him on payment of the fines and charges incurred in respect of such cattle.
     The owner or his agent, on taking back the cattle, shall sign a receipt for them in the register kept by the pound-keeper.
                                                    STATE AMENDMENTS
     Maharashtra.--
     Amendment of section 13 of Act 1 of 1871.--In the principal Act, to the first paragraph of section 13, the following shall be added, namely:--
    "and on depositing the amount of security prescribed under section 12A."
[Vide Bombay Act XIII of 1959, s. 6]
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