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PART IV. 



Procedure Miscellaneous provisions. 



46. Any proceedings for Petty Sessions to 

 (a) the recovery of any sum of money, which any person is, ^"f 



piirsuant to the provisions of this Act, required or made and money 

 liable to pay, whether such sum of money he due in respect 

 of rabbit rates, costs of rabbit destruction, contributions 

 towards rabbit-proof fencing, or otherwise howsoever; or 

 (&) the recovery of penalties or punishment of offences under this 



Act or any regulation made thereunder 



shall be heard and determined in a summary way before a Court of 

 Petty Sessions in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Acts 

 in force for the time being regulating summary proceedings before 

 Justices. 



Where the Court of Petty Sessions, upon such proceedings, 

 adjudge or order any sum of money to be paid and the same is not 

 paid, either immediately after the adjudication or conviction, or within 

 the time then and there allowed by the said Court, payment of the 

 said sum may be enforced by distress and sale of the goods and chattels 

 of the person adjudged or ordered to pay the same in the manner 

 provided by the said Act or Acts : Provided always that nothing herein 

 contained shall affect any other remedy provided in the Crown Lands 

 Acts. 



Any person may take proceedings under this Act for the 

 punishment of any offence hereby enacted ; but where the land 

 upon which an offence is committed is situate within a Rabbit District 

 any fine or penalty imposed for such offence shall belong and be paid 

 to the Rabbit Board of the District any law or statute to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding and the Court imposing such fine or penalty 

 shall order accordingly. 



47. Any person aggrieved by any adjudication, order, fine, Power to appeal 

 penalty, or punishment made or imposed by a Court of Petty Sessions from Petty Sessions - 

 under this Act, may appeal against the same, and the provisions of 



the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1883 in respect of appeals in 

 cases of summary conviction shall extend and apply to every such 

 appeal. 



48. In any case under this Act where any sum of money is Action in tho 

 ordered to be paid by a Court of General or Quarter Sessions, and the Q^Tn certain*" * 

 same is not paid within the period named in such order, it shall be cases. 



lawful for the person entitled to receive payment of such sum to sue 

 upon such order in the District Court or the Supreme Court. 



49. In any proceedings under this Act, the jurisdiction of the jmisdiction of Court 

 Local Land Board, or Court before Avhom the proceedings are had, or J u *t"*i> not * b <> 

 shall not be ousted on the ground that the case raises any question 



of title to land, or that the defendant does not reside within the 

 boundaries of the jurisdiction of the Board or Court before which the 

 proceedings are had : Provided that in such last-mentioned case the 

 land in respect of which the proceedings are had shall be situated 

 within the boundaries of the jurisdiction of such Board or Court. 



50. In any proceedings before a Local Land Board for the Proceedings before 

 determination of any contribution, value, or other sum of money (not Lo al Land ^ oi 



J J \. and on appeal. 



being an amount payable under any Rabbit Rate or as compensation 

 by a Rabbit Board), the Local Land Board in determining the sum 

 payable may allow time for the payment thereof, and may determine 

 the instalments by which the same may be paid, and appoint the dates 

 on or before which such instalments shall respectively be paid. 



Where 



