Australian Capital Territory

pounds act 1928
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 31 March 1999
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
Part 1—Preliminary
	1.	Short title
	2.	Commencement
	3.	State Act to cease to apply
	5.	Interpretation
	6.	Application of Act
	7.	Power of Minister to determine fees
	7A.	Causes of action not affected
Part 2—Pounds and poundkeepers
	8.	Establishment and abolition of pounds
	9.	Poundkeepers
	10.	Pound fees
	11.	Driving charges, sustenance and deterrent fees and trespass rates
	13.	Driving charges etc payable to Territory
	14.	List of charges, fees and rates to be displayed on conspicuous part of pound
	15.	Notice of impounded cattle
	16.	Poundkeeper to keep pound book and register of brands
Part 3—Impounding
	17.	Power to impound cattle trespassing

	18.	Impounding on private premises
	19.	Occupier may send cattle to owner and demand payment
	20.	Occupier entitled to trespass rates
	21.	Occupier may detain cattle
	23.	Cattle more than 20 metres from road may be impounded
	24.	Restoration of cattle to owner
	25.	Cattle to be impounded in nearest pound
	26.	Poundkeeper to detain impounded cattle
	27.	Registration of brands etc
Part 4—Sale of Cattle
	28.	Cattle not released may be sold at pound
	29.	If no purchaser at sale, cattle to be destroyed and sold
	30.	Application of the proceeds of pound sales
	31.	Recovery of fees etc where cattle cannot be sold or proceeds of sale are not sufficient to pay fees etc
part 5—illegal impounding
	32.	Release of cattle upon notice of illegal impounding
	33.	Powers of Magistrates Court
Part 6—Miscellaneous
	34.	Power to destroy goats, pigs and geese trespassing
	35.	Penalty for offences by other persons
	36.	Lands enclosed in ring fence
	37.	Inspectors of pounds
	37A.	Powers of inspectors
	37B.	Obstruction of inspectors
	38.	Poundkeeper may send cattle out of pound for purposes of grazing etc
	39.	Gazette prima facie evidence
	41.	Regulations

Australian Capital Territory

pounds act 1928
An Act relating to the impounding of cattle and for other purposes
Part 1—Preliminary
1. 	Short title
	This Act may be cited as the Pounds Act 1928.1
2. 	Commencement
	This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by the Commission by notice in the Gazette.1
3. 	State Act to cease to apply
	The Impounding Act 1898 of the State of New South Wales shall cease to apply to the Territory.
5. 	Interpretation
(1) 	In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—
“cattle” includes any horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly or foal, and any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer or calf, and any sheep, pig, ass, mule or goat;
“great cattle” includes any horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly or foal, and any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer or calf, and any ass or mule;
“inspector” means an inspector of pounds under section 37;

“occupier of land” includes the holder of land under any tenure whatsoever, and any person occupying any land the property of the Commonwealth under any lease, licence or other authority granted by or on behalf of or in the name of the Commonwealth or the Territory, and also any agent or overseer or other duly authorised person acting for and on behalf of any such occupier, and in the case of land the property of the Commonwealth means the Territory or, in the case of National Land, the Commonwealth;
“owner” means any proprietor of cattle or any agent or overseer of any proprietor;
“pound” means any pound established under this Act;
“poundkeeper”, in relation to a pound, means the poundkeeper for that pound under section 9;
“road” means any street, road, lane, thoroughfare or footpath, open to, or used by, the public;
“sheep” includes any ram, ewe, wether or lamb;
“sufficient fence” means such a fence or other means of enclosure, natural or artificial, as the Magistrates Court hearing any matter under this Act deems to be sufficient to prevent trespass by animals ordinarily controllable.
(2) 	A reference in a provision of this Act to a determined fee, charge or rate shall be read as a reference to the fee, charge or rate determined under section 7 for the purposes of that provision.
6. 	Application of Act
(1) 	This Act shall not apply to the Territory accepted by the Commonwealth in pursuance of the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 of the Commonwealth unless and until the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, declares it so to apply.
(2) 	The Minister may, by any such notice, declare that this Act shall so apply wholly or only to the extent specified in the notice.
7. 	Power of Minister to determine fees
	The Minister may, by notice in writing published in the Gazette, determine fees, charges and rates for the purposes of this Act.
7A. 	Causes of action not affected
	Nothing in this Act affects any right that a person may have to recover damages or compensation apart from this Act.
Part 2—Pounds and poundkeepers
8. 	Establishment and abolition of pounds
	The Minister may establish a pound at any place and may abolish any pound.
9. 	Poundkeepers
(1) 	There may be a poundkeeper for any pound.
(2) 	The chief executive shall create and maintain 1 or more offices in the government service the duties of which include performing the functions of a poundkeeper.
(3) 	A poundkeeper shall be any public servant for the time being performing the duties of a government service office referred to in subsection (2).
10. 	Pound fees
	There shall be payable to the Territory such pound fees as are determined.
11. 	Driving charges, sustenance and deterrent fees and trespass rates
(1) 	The driving charges, deterrent fees and trespass rates payable in respect of any pound shall be as determined.
(1A) 	The sustenance fees payable in respect of any pound shall be such fees as are determined.
(2) 	Driving charges shall be payable to the occupier of the land on which the cattle were found trespassing for leading, conveying or driving cattle to a pound.
(3) 	Deterrent fees shall be payable to the Territory in respect of all impounded cattle in the pound.
(4) 	Trespass rates shall be payable to the occupier of the land on which the cattle were found trespassing as compensation in respect of any trespass committed by impounded cattle, and may vary according to the description of the cattle trespassing and the type of land trespassed on.
13. 	Driving charges etc payable to Territory
	All driving charges and trespass rates payable in respect of impounded cattle shall be payable in the first instance to the Territory which shall hold them, subject to the provisions of this Act, for the person entitled thereto.
14. 	List of charges, fees and rates to be displayed on conspicuous part of pound
	The poundkeeper shall cause to be displayed and kept displayed on a conspicuous part of the pound a list of all charges, fees and rates that are payable under this Act.
15. 	Notice of impounded cattle
	Whenever cattle are impounded, the poundkeeper shall forthwith place a written notice on the gate or other conspicuous part of the pound giving the number, particulars, brands or apparent brands, and marks of the cattle so impounded and the notice shall remain so posted until the cattle have been claimed or disposed of in due court of law.
16. 	Poundkeeper to keep pound book and register of brands
(1) 	Every poundkeeper shall keep a pound book and a register of brands in accordance with the prescribed form, and shall make all entries therein without delay.
(2) 	A poundkeeper shall not make any entry in the pound book while any question as to the subject matter of the entry is at issue.
(3) 	The pound book and a copy of this Act and all regulations thereunder shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any member of the police force free of charge and of any other person upon payment of the determined fee.
(4) 	A person may, upon payment of the determined fee, obtain a copy of, or an extract from, an entry in the pound book or the register of brands.
Part 3—Impounding
17. 	Power to impound cattle trespassing
(1) 	Any member of the police force or any person thereto authorised by the Minister may, on any day and at any time of the day or night, impound any cattle found trespassing on any road or on any unleased land the property of the Commonwealth.
(2) 	The occupier of any land adjoining a road, which road is fenced on both sides by a sufficient fence, may impound any cattle wandering without control upon the road.
(3) 	The occupier of any land, may, at any time between the hours of 8am and 5pm on any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or any day observed as a holiday in the government service, impound any cattle found trespassing on the land occupied by him or her.
18. 	Impounding on private premises
(1) 	Subject to the provisions of this section, any occupier may, if he or she knows their owner, temporarily impound in any convenient place on his or her own premises, for a period not exceeding 4 days, any cattle found trespassing on his or her land.
(2) 	The occupier shall, within 24 hours after so impounding the cattle, give notice to the owner, and shall feed and maintain the cattle while so impounded, and may, at or before the expiration of the period of 4 days, if they are not sooner duly released, impound them in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(3) 	The occupier may make a charge for feeding and maintaining the cattle and for sending the notice, not exceeding such charges as would be payable to the Territory if the cattle were impounded in a pound and for trespass rates.
(4) 	Any occupier contemplating impounding any cattle may detain them on his or her own premises for 24 hours or such longer time as is prescribed before impounding them.
19. 	Occupier may send cattle to owner and demand payment
	Any occupier may send any cattle trespassing on his or her land to any convenient place near the residence of the owner, and may at the same time demand from the owner payment of driving charges and trespass rates, and thereupon the owner shall pay those charges and rates as satisfaction for the trespass, or, in default thereof, the occupier may recover them as a debt in the Magistrates Court with reasonable costs of suit.
20. 	Occupier entitled to trespass rates
	The occupier of any land trespassed on by cattle may restore them to the owner thereof, and in that case the occupier may demand, and, in the case of nonpayment, recover in a summary way before the Magistrates Court, from the owner of the cattle, the amount of any driving charges and trespass rates that would be payable in pursuance of this Act if the cattle were impounded, and, when driving charges and trespass rates have not been determined, then such compensation as the court deems reasonable.
21. 	Occupier may detain cattle
	Any occupier may detain any cattle trespassing on his or her land and give notice to the owner of the detention stating where they are and requiring him or her to remove them, and may demand trespass rates and the costs of notice, and, if the cattle are not released within 24 hours after that notice has been given, shall impound the cattle, and may add the cost of the notice to the fees and charges recoverable by him or her on impounding.

23. 	Cattle more than 20 metres from road may be impounded
	Occupiers of unenclosed lands the property of the Commonwealth through which any road passes may not impound any cattle travelling along or through any such road unless they be at the time of seizure at a greater distance from either side than 20 metres, provided that, unless prevented by rain or flood, the cattle, other than sheep, are moved on or along the road, at least 16 kilometres, and any such cattle being sheep at least 10 kilometres, in 1 direction, within every successive period of 24 hours.
24. 	Restoration of cattle to owner
	Whenever any cattle have been seized for trespass by any occupier for the purposes of impounding them, and the owner of the cattle or some person on his or her behalf pays or tenders to the person seizing or having charge of the cattle before they have been actually impounded the driving charges and trespass rates payable in pursuance of this Act, the person having charge of the cattle shall forthwith deliver them up to the owner or the person paying or tendering the charges and rates on his or her behalf.
25. 	Cattle to be impounded in nearest pound
(1) 	Cattle shall be impounded under the provisions of this Act in the nearest accessible pound to the place where the cattle were found trespassing, and the person by whom or by whose order any cattle are sent to the pound shall in a written memorandum specify to the poundkeeper the description, number, brands or apparent brands, and marks of the cattle, the place where they were found trespassing, the amount of trespass rates claimed, and, so far as the person impounding can state it, the name of the owner of the cattle.
(2) 	The cattle may be either led, conveyed or driven to the pound.
26. 	Poundkeeper to detain impounded cattle
	Every poundkeeper shall receive and detain in his or her custody any cattle lodged in the pound until the trespass rates for which the cattle were impounded and all fees, rates and charges payable under this Act are paid, or until he or she receives notice of the decision or order of the Magistrates Court given or made in pursuance of section 33, or receives an order in writing, signed by the person impounding the cattle, for their release without payment of the trespass rates.
27. 	Registration of brands etc
(1) 	Every poundkeeper shall, upon application made by or on behalf of the owner of the brand or mark accompanied by the determined fee, register any brand or mark (not being a brand or mark already registered) used in branding and marking cattle together with the name and address of the owner of the brand or mark.
(2) 	Where any cattle are impounded, the poundkeeper shall forthwith, where the cattle are branded or marked with any registered brand or mark, deliver at or post to the registered address of the person causing the brands or marks to be registered, and, where the cattle are not so branded or marked, publish in a newspaper published in the Territory, a notice setting out particulars of the animals impounded and of the amounts due and payable in respect of the cattle.
Part 4—Sale of cattle
28. 	Cattle not released may be sold at pound
(1) 	Where cattle have not been released from the pound within fourteen days after the giving or publication of the notice mentioned in section 27, the cattle shall be sold by public auction at the pound.
(2) 	The sale shall be made on the first day after the expiration of the period of 14 days mentioned in subsection (1) which the Minister or a person thereto authorised by the Minister determines by notice published in a newspaper published in the Territory to be a day on which a sale shall be held at the pound.
(3) 	At any such sale, the poundkeeper shall act as auctioneer, and the sale shall commence at the hour of noon.
(4) 	At any sale held in pursuance of this section not more than 1 head of great cattle nor more than 10 sheep or goats shall be sold in one lot, but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a cow with her calf or a mare with her foal from being sold in one lot.
(5) 	The poundkeeper shall neither in person nor by his or her agent purchase any cattle at any such sale or have any interest of any kind in cattle so purchased.
29. 	If no purchaser at sale, cattle to be destroyed and sold
	Where any cattle have been offered for sale at any pound sale and a bid has not been made at the sale for the cattle, and they are not, in the opinion of an officer thereto authorised by the Minister, worth the sustenance fees that would be payable in respect thereof during the interval between the sale and the next day appointed for holding a sale at the pound, that officer may cause the cattle to be destroyed and dispose of the carcases in such manner as he or she thinks fit, and any proceeds of any sale of the carcases or any portion thereof shall be deemed to be the proceeds of the sale of impounded cattle.
30. 	Application of the proceeds of pound sales
(1) 	The proceeds of all sales of impounded cattle sold in pursuance of this Act shall be applicable in payment—
	(a)	firstly, of any costs and charges attending the sale;
	(b)	secondly, of all pound fees and sustenance fees;
	(c)	thirdly, of all other fees and charges payable under this Act;
	(d)	fourthly, to the impounder of the cattle, of the rates due to him or her for the trespass thereof;
and the residue (if any) shall be payable to the owner of the cattle.
(2) 	If the fees, charges or rates are not or the residue is not claimed by any person entitled thereto within 1 year after the sale, or, in case the person has been an infant, of unsound mind, or beyond the seas at the time of the sale, within 1 year after the termination of the disability, the fees, charges, rates or residue shall become public money of the Territory.
31. 	Recovery of fees etc where cattle cannot be sold or proceeds of sale are not sufficient to pay fees etc
	Where any impounded cattle are not released, and cannot be sold as provided in this Act, or are sold for a sum less than the fees, charges and rates payable in pursuance of this Act, the Minister or any person thereto authorised by the Minister may recover in the Magistrates Court from the person who was the owner of the cattle when impounded, a sum equivalent to the fees, charges, and rates due to the Territory or to the difference by which the sale price of the cattle falls short of those fees, charges, and rates, and the impounder may recover, in the Magistrates Court, from that person the fees, charges and rates or any balance thereof payable to him or her in respect of the cattle.
Part 5—Illegal impounding
32. 	Release of cattle upon notice of illegal impounding
	The owner of impounded cattle may give notice in writing to the poundkeeper that he or she intends to institute proceedings in the Magistrates Court against the person impounding the cattle claiming that the impounding was illegal under this Act, or that the rates demanded for the trespass of the cattle are excessive, and, upon receipt of the notice and payment to the Territory of the rates with the fees and charges payable under this Act, the poundkeeper shall release the cattle.
33. 	Powers of Magistrates Court
(1) 	An application to institute proceedings pursuant to section 32 shall be made within 10 days after the date on which the notice referred to in that section was given.
(2) 	The court may—
	(a)	dismiss the application;
	(b)	find that the cattle were not trespassing;
	(c)	find that the impounding was illegal under this Act; or
	(d)	find that the rates demanded for the trespass of the cattle are excessive;
and may make an order against the defendant for the amount of damages sustained by the owner in consequence of the illegal impounding or excessive demand and for the amount of all fees, rates and charges paid by the owner to the Territory, and may make such order for costs and expenses as the court thinks fit.
(3) 	Any such order against the defendant shall be an authority to the Territory to pay to the owner the trespass rates paid in pursuance of section 32.
(4) 	The court may hear and determine an application notwithstanding any question of title to property or suggestion of right that may be involved therein.
Part 6—Miscellaneous
34. 	Power to destroy goats, pigs and geese trespassing
	The occupier of any land, and, in the case of lands the property of the Commonwealth, any person thereto authorised in writing by the Minister, may destroy or cause to be destroyed any goats, pigs, or geese trespassing on the land, and, if the owner of the goats, pigs or geese fails to remove their carcases within 12 hours after their destruction, the person destroying the goats, pigs or geese shall cause the carcases to be buried.
35. 	Penalty for offences by other persons
	Any person who—
	(a)	rescues or attempts to rescue or interfere with or aids, abets, incites, counsels or procures any person to rescue or interfere with any cattle impounded or seized for the purpose of being impounded;
	(b)	destroys or injures or attempts to destroy or injure any pound;
	(c)	illegally impounds any cattle;
	(d)	removes cattle from any one place to any other place for the purpose of impounding those cattle from the lastmentioned place;
	(e)	being in charge of or assisting in driving cattle refuses, on demand by any member of the police force or by or on behalf of any person upon whose land the cattle are trespassing, to disclose or states untruly the name and address of the owner of the cattle or of his or her agent or overseer;
	(f)	drives cattle on or from the land of any other person without proper authority and without previous notice to that person or to his or her agent or overseer;
	(g)	wilfully leaves open any gate or slip panel or makes a gap in any fence for the purpose of permitting or causing any cattle to trespass, or otherwise wilfully causes any cattle to trespass;
	(h)	without proper authority, wilfully lets in any cattle or knowingly suffers any cattle to enter upon the land of any other person, being land that—
	(i)	contains a garden or bears a growing crop; and
	(ii)	is enclosed with a sufficient fence; or
	(i)	fails to comply with or contravenes any provision of this Act;
shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty:  10 penalty units.
36. 	Lands enclosed in ring fence
(1) 	In every case in which more occupiers than 1 hold lands enclosed by one common outward sufficient fence, those lands shall in regard to the liability for trespass rates, be deemed, as against all persons outside the common fence, to be sufficiently fenced, but as against each other in cases where a sufficient fence does not stand between them, shall be deemed to be unenclosed lands.
(2) 	If the occupier of any land having an insufficient dividing fence fails to make or repair his or her portion thereof and the occupant of the adjoining land has erected or kept in repair his or her portion thereof, the lastmentioned land shall be deemed to have a sufficient fence as against the trespass thereon of any cattle of which the firstmentioned occupier is the owner.
37. 	Inspectors of pounds
(1) 	There may be 1 or more inspectors of pounds.
(2) 	The chief executive shall create and maintain 1 or more offices in the government service the duties of which include performing the functions of an inspector of pounds.
(3) 	An inspector shall be any public servant for the time being performing the duties of a government service office referred to in subsection (2).
37A. 	Powers of inspectors
(1) 	Subject to the directions of the chief executive, an inspector of pounds has the supervision and control of such pounds and poundkeepers as the chief executive directs.
(2) 	In the performance of a function under subsection (1), an inspector may enter any land at any time to inspect any cattle impounded or detained for the purpose of being impounded. 
37B. 	Obstruction of inspectors
	A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, obstruct or hinder an inspector in the performance of his or her functions under this Act.
Penalty:
	(a)	in the case of a natural person—50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both;
	(b)	in the case of a body corporate—250 penalty units.
38. 	Poundkeeper may send cattle out of pound for purposes of grazing etc
	A poundkeeper may take or send any cattle out of his or her pound at such times and to such places as he or she thinks fit for the purpose of grazing or watering.
39. 	Gazette prima facie evidence
	A copy of the Gazette containing a notification of the establishment or abolition of any pound or of the appointment, suspension or removal of any poundkeeper or of any matter or thing required to be done by or under this Act shall be prima facie evidence that the pound was duly established or abolished and that the poundkeeper was duly appointed, suspended or removed and that the matter or thing has been duly done or performed.
41. 	Regulations
	The Executive may make Regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

NOTES
1.	The Pounds Act 1928  in this reprint is No. 10, 1928 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
2.	The Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 authorises the Parliamentary Counsel in preparing a law for republication, to make certain editorial and other formal amendments in accordance with current legislative drafting practice.  The amendments do not change the law.  Amendments made under the Act do not appear in the Table of Amendments but details may be obtained on request from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.
Table 1
Table of Ordinances
Ordinance	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Pounds Ordinance 1928	10, 1928	27 Apr 1928	9 Sept 1929 (see Gazette 1929, 
p. 1903)		
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1937	27, 1937	23 Dec 1937	23 Dec 1937	—	
Pounds Ordinance 1959	5, 1959	7 May 1959	7 May 1959	—	
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1959	21, 1959	23 Dec 1959	31 Dec 1959	—	
Ordinances Revision (Decimal Currency) Ordinance 1966	19, 1966	23 Dec 1966	23 Dec 1966	—	
Ordinances Revision (Metric Conversion) Ordinance 1977	64, 1977	22 Dec 1977	22 Dec 1977	—	
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1977	65, 1977	22 Dec 1977	22 Dec 1977	—	
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1978	46, 1978	28 Dec 1978	28 Dec 1978	—	
Pounds (Amendment) Ordinance 1983	35, 1983	29 Sept 1983	1 Oct 1983	—	
Pounds (Amendment) Ordinance 1984	37, 1984	23 July 1984	23 July 1984	—	
Magistrates Court Ordinance 1985	67, 1985	19 Dec 1985	1 Feb 1986 (see Gazette 1986, No. G3, p. 265)	—	
Magistrates Court (Amendment) Ordinance (No. 3) 1986	74, 1986	14 Nov 1986	14 Nov 1986	—	
Self-Government (Consequential Amendments) Ordinance 1989	38, 1989	10 May 1989	Ss. 1 and 2:  10 May 1989
Remainder:  11 May 1989 (see s. 2 (2) and Gazette 1989, No. S164)
	—	
Self-Government day 11 May 1989

Table 2
Table of Acts
Act	Number  
and year	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

Public Sector Management (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 1994	38, 1994	30 June 1994	Ss. 1 and 2:  30 June 1994
Remainder:  1 July 1994 (see Gazette 1994, No. S142, p. 2)	Ss. 3, 5-12, 15 and 19	
Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Act 1994	81, 1994	29 Nov 1994	Ss. 1 and 2:  29 Nov 1994
Remainder:  29 Nov 1994 (see Gazette 1994, No. S269, p. 2)	—	
Statutory Offices (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994	97, 1994	15  Dec 1994	Ss. 1 and 2:  15 Dec 1994
Remainder:  15 Dec 1994 (see Gazette 1994, No. S293)	Part III
(ss. 4-9)	
(Reprinted as at 28 February 1995)	
Financial Management and Audit (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 1996	26, 1996	1 July 1996	1 July 1996	—	
Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Act 1998	54, 1998	27 Nov 1998	Ss. 1 and 2:  27 Nov 1998
Remainder:  9 Dec 1998 (see Gazette 1998, No. 49, p. 1078)
	—	

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

S. 4	rep. No. 65, 1977
S. 5	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 5, 1959; No. 35, 1983; No. 67, 1985; No. 38, 1989; Act No. 97, 1994
S. 6	am. No. 27, 1937
S. 7	am. No. 27, 1937
	rep. No. 21, 1959
	ad. No. 35, 1983
S. 7A	ad. No. 37, 1984
S. 8	am. No. 27, 1937

S. 9	am. No. 27, 1937
	rs. Act No. 97, 1994
S. 10	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 35, 1983; No. 38, 1989
S. 11	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 5, 1959; No. 35, 1983; No. 38, 1989
S. 12	am. No. 19, 1966
	rep. No. 35, 1983
S. 13	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 38, 1989
S. 14	rs. No. 5, 1959
S. 16	am. No. 35, 1983
S. 17	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 38, 1989; Act No. 38, 1994
S. 18	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 21, 1959; No. 35, 1983; No. 38, 1989
Ss. 19, 20	am. No. 35, 1983; No. 67, 1985
S. 21	am. No. 35, 1983
S. 22	am. No. 27, 1937
	rep. No. 5, 1959
S. 23	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 64, 1977
Ss. 24, 25	am. No. 35, 1983
S. 26	am. No. 35, 1983; No. 67, 1985
S. 27	am. Nos. 5 and 21, 1959; No. 35, 1983
S. 28	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 5, 1959
S. 29	am. No. 27, 1937
S. 30	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 35, 1983; Act No. 26, 1996
S. 31	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 67, 1985; No. 38, 1989
S. 32	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 35, 1983; No. 67, 1985; No. 74, 1986; No. 38, 1989
S. 33	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 46, 1978; No. 35, 1983; No. 67, 1985; No. 74, 1986; No. 38, 1989
S. 34	am. No. 27, 1937
S. 35	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 5, 1959; No. 19, 1966; Act No. 81, 1994
S. 36	am. No. 35, 1983
S. 37	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 19, 1966; Act No. 81, 1994
	rs. No. 97, 1994
S. 37A	ad. Act No. 97, 1994
S. 37B 	ad. Act No. 97, 1994
	am. No. 54, 1998
S. 40	am. No. 27, 1937
	rep. Act No. 26, 1996
S. 41	am. No. 27, 1937; No. 5, 1959; No. 35, 1983; No. 38, 1989