Rabbit. 



Authorised person 

 may enter holding. 



Penalty for person- 

 ating or obstructing 

 authorised person. 



Penalty for 



miscellaneous 



offences. 



Penalty for keeping, 

 liberating, &c., 

 rabbits. 



Permission to keep 

 rabbits. 



Penalty for 

 interfering with 

 traps, (.<. 



4*2. Any authorised person may, on the production of his 

 authority, if demanded by any owner, from time to time enter upon 

 any holding or land with or without assistants, dogs, horses, and vehicles 

 in order to search whether any rabbits are on such land, or to erect or 

 repair barrier-fences or gates, or to examine and inspect land, or for 

 any purpose whatsoever imder this Act, and may remain thereon so 

 long, and do all such things as may be necessary or reasonable. 



Any person who falsely represents himself to be or personates 

 an authorised person under this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, 

 and shall on conviction be liable to be imprisoned with or without 

 hard labour for any period not exceeding six months, or to pay a 

 penalty of not more than one hundred pounds. 



Any person who wilfully assaults, obstructs, hinders, or 

 interrupts, or causes to be assaulted, obstructed, hindered, or 

 interrupted, any authorised person in the exercise of any power or 

 authority vested in him by this Act, shall for every such offence if not 

 otherwise specially provided for be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 twenty pounds ; and no proceeding for recovery of such penalty nor 

 the payment thereof shall be a bar to any action at law for or in 

 respect of any such assault as aforesaid, but every such action may be 

 commenced and proceeded with as if this Act had not been passed, any 

 law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 



For the purposes of this section an authorised person means 

 a person having authority from the Minister or from a Kabbit Board, 

 and such authority may be a general authority. 



43. Any person who 

 (a) wilfully carries, drives, or passes any live rabbit through, 



under, or over any rabbit-proof fence or gate ; or 

 (6) wilfully leaves open any gate in a rabbit-proof fence ; or 

 . (c) without lawful authority (the proof of which shall be on 

 such person) wilfully destroys, injures, tcars-up, depresses, 

 or removes any portion of a rabbit-proof fence or gate, or 

 excavates under, or in any way tampers with, any portion of 

 such fence or gate, so as thereby to endanger its effective- 

 ness; or 

 (d) attempts to do any such act as is hereinbefore mentioned, or 



procures the same to be done 



shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any 

 term not exceeding six months, or to pay a penalty not exceeding one 

 hundred pounds, or both. 



A rabbit-proof fence or gate, for the purposes of this section, 

 shall mean a fence or gate apparently intended to protect any land 

 from rabbits, and shall include a barrier fence, or gate therein, and it 

 shall be immaterial whether or not such fence or gate is in accordance 

 with the requirements of this Act. 



44. Any person who without lawful authority (the proof of 

 which shall be on the person claiming to have the same) wilfully 

 liberates or attempts to liberate, or has in his possession any live rabbit, 

 shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds for 

 every such offence ; but nothing herein contained shall be construed 

 to prohibit any person from keeping live rabbits in any safe enclosure 

 with the permission of the Minister first had and obtained. 



45. Any person Avho destroys, injures, removes, or interferes 

 with any trap, snare, poison, matter, or thing which is used or required 

 for the purpose of capturing or destroying rabbits, and which is 

 lawfully placed upon any land for such purpose shall be liable to a 

 penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 



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