Victorian Current Acts

FORESTS ACT 1958 - SECT 89

S. 89(1) amended by Nos 6976 s. 17(b), 9615 s. 8(a)(b), 41/1987 s. 103(Sch. 4 item 24.102), 76/1998
s. 10(1)(u), 19/2018 s. 132.

    (1)     All unbranded wild cattle at any time depasturing on any reserved forest and having no reputed or apparent owner shall be and be deemed and taken to be the property of the Crown; and it shall be lawful for the land manager to cause the same to be sold or disposed of in such a manner as the Governor in Council directs.

S. 89(2) amended by Nos 6976 s. 17(b), 41/1987 s. 103(Sch. 4 item 24.102), 76/1998
s. 10(1)(u), 19/2018 s. 132.

    (2)     The purchaser of any such cattle on obtaining the written authority of the land manager for that purpose shall be at liberty, within such time and in such a manner as is mentioned in such authority with necessary and proper assistance to shoot or take possession of such cattle, and for that purpose may enter upon any reserved forest where the same may be depasturing.

S. 90
repealed by No. 7835 s. 8.

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No. 6073 s. 91.

S. 91 (Heading) inserted by No. 24/2006 s. 6.1.2(Sch. 7 item 19.1(a)).

S. 91 amended by Nos 9993 s. 20(1)(a)(b), 46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1), 24/2006 s. 6.1.2(Sch. 7 item 19.1(b)–(d)), 58/2007 s. 53, 38/2021 s. 22.