7 Detention and sale of trespassing livestock
Animals Act 1971 (1971 c 22) | Legislation

Detention and sale of trespassing livestock

7  Detention and sale of trespassing livestock

(1)     The right to seize and detain any animal by way of distress damage feasant is hereby abolished.

(2)     Where any livestock strays on to any land and is not then under the control of any person the occupier of the land may detain it, subject to subsection (3) of this section, unless ordered to return it by a court.

(3)     Where any livestock is detained in pursuance of this section the right to detain it ceases—

(a)     at the end of a period of forty-eight hours, unless within that period notice

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