Cattle-trespass Act : Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs Indian Bare Acts :

Cattle-trespass Act,1871

Act No : 1

Section : Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs

26. Penalty for damage caused to land or crops or public roads by pigs. Any owner or keeper of pigs who, through neglect or otherwise, damages or causes or permits to be damaged any land, or any crop or produce of land, or any public road, by allowing such pigs to trespass thereon, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be punished with fine not exceeding ten rupees. 3*[The State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, may from time to time, with respect to any local area specified in the notification, direct that the foregoing portion of this section shall be read as if it had reference to cattle generally, or to cattle of a kind described in the notification, instead of to pigs only, or as if the words "fifty rupees" were substituted for the words "ten rupees," or as if there were both such reference and such substitution.] 4* * * * *