LawgistThe Cattle-Trespass Act
1Title 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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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.
All sections
- 1 Title and extent
- 2 [Repealed.]
- 3 Interpretation clause
- 4 Establishment of pounds
- 5 Control of pounds
- 6 Appointment of pound-keepers. Pound-keepers may hold other offices. Pound-keepers to be public servants
- 7 To keep registers and furnish returns
- 8 To register seizures
- 9 To take charge of and feed cattle
- 10 Cattle damaging land
- 11 Cattle damaging public roads, canals and embankments
- 12 Fines for cattle impounded
- 13 Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays fines and charges
- 14 Procedure if cattle be not claimed within a week
- 15 Delivery to owner disputing legality of seizure but making deposit
- 16 Procedure when owner refuses or omits to pay the fines and expenses
- 17 Disposal of fines, expenses and surplus proceeds of sale
- 18 [Repealed.]
- 19 Officers and pound-keepers not to purchase cattle at sales under Act
- 20 Power to make complaints
- 21 Procedure on complaint
- 22 Compensation for illegal seizure or detention
- 23 Recovery of compensation
- 24 Penalty for forcibly opposing the seizure of cattle or rescuing the same
- 25 Recovery of penalty for mischief committed by causing cattle to trespass
- 26 Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs
- 27 Penalty on pound-keeper failing to perform duties
- 28 Application of fines recovered under section 25, 26 or 27
- 29 Saving of right to sue for compensation
- 30 Set-off
- 31 Power for State Government to transfer certain functions to local authority
