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STOCK (IDENTIFICATION AND MOVEMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 39

39 .         Proprietor may be permitted to search for straying stock

        (1)         Any person who has reason to believe that any stock of which he is the proprietor are on the run of another person may, if he has been refused permission by that other person to enter and search for such stock, apply to a justice who, after notice given to such proprietor, or any other person in authority, may grant or refuse permission to that firstmentioned person to hunt and collect any stray stock on any run, upon such conditions as to the justice may seem expedient.

        (2)         Any permission granted pursuant to subsection (1) shall be in writing and signed by the justice, and shall specify such conditions as the justice thinks fit, and subject to compliance with those conditions, the person to whom permission has been granted may enter such run with the necessary assistants, vehicles or horses and collect and remove all branded stock thereon of which he is the proprietor.



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