The CATTLE-TRESPASS ACT, 1871

PRELIMINARY

Section 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 3 [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. [Omitted ]

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  2. 2.[Repealed.].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  18. 18.[Repealed.].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 SCH-SCHEDULE.—[Repealed.]..SCHEDULE.—[Repealed.].