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Animals Act (No. 29 of 1958) - Sect 15

Power of a Government Agent or a person authorized by him to seize and detain animals trespassing on irrigation works, aerodromes, salterns, lines of railway or land appertaining thereto, public roads, public parks or Crown lands

15.
(1) It shall be lawful for the Government Agent of any Administrative District or any person authorized in that behalf by such Government Agent to seize any animal trespassing, within that District, on any irrigation work, aerodrome, saltern, line of railway or land appertaining thereto, public road, public park or Crown land, other than a jungle or a land set apart for the grazing of animals, and to tie up and detain it until-
(a) the full amount of damages, if any, occasioned by the trespass and assessed in the prescribed
(b) the fair expenses of maintenance of that animal during detention after seizure,
(2) All sums of money received by a Government Agent under subsection (1) shall be credited to the Consolidated Fund of Ceylon.

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