Section 71: Animals straying on roads
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
71. Animals straying on roads
(1) An animal found straying or lying on a road without a person in
charge of it shall be liable to be seized by any person and taken to the nearest police station, or to any other place destined for that purpose.
(2) —
(3) Where it is shown to the satisfaction of a District Magistrate that an
animal seized and impounded under subsection (1) is afflicted with an infectious disease, the District Magistrate may order that the animal be destroyed.
(4) Any person who rescues, or attempts to rescue, an animal from the
custody of the person effecting its seizure under this section, or any person
who lets loose, or attempts to let loose, an animal impounded under this section from the place where it has been impounded, or any person, who, for
such a purpose, pulls down, destroys or causes damage or injury to that
place shall commit an offence.