Section 4: Persons impounding animals to provide food and water
consolidated text (as at 1999). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Persons impounding animals to provide food and water
(1) Every person who impounds, or confines in any pound or receptable
of the like nature, an animal, shall provide and supply to that animal during
its confinement, a sufficient quantity of fit and wholesome food and water.
(2) Every person referred to in subsection (1) who refuses or neglects to
provide and supply the animal with food and water, shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 rupees.
(3) The cost of food and water for an animal impounded or confined under
subsection (1) shall be paid by the owner of the animal before it is removed.
(4) (a) Where the animal is not removed within a delay of 7 clear days,
the Magistrate may order that the animal be sold, after due notice in the
Gazette or in 2 daily newspapers.
(b) The proceeds of the sale, after deducting the expenses of maintaining the animal and the costs of sale, shall be handed over to—
(i) the owner of the animal, if he claims them within 6 months of
the date of the sale;
(ii) the Accountant-General, where the owner does not claim them
within 6 months of the date of the sale.
[S. 4 amended by Act 28 of 1988.]