Section 82

The owner of any animal which trespasses or strays upon the railway or upon any land appertaining to the railway, such railway or lands being provided with suitable fences for excluding cattle, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10 for each animal.

Any railway official may take or drive every animal so found trespassing to the nearest police station, there to be detained until the highest amount of fine incurred by such trespass and the expense of feeding and keeping the animal is paid, or until a Magistrate’s Court otherwise orders.

If such animal becomes unmanageable or suffers from fatal or serious injury any railway official not below the rank of station master may shoot or otherwise destroy it, and the owner shall be liable to prosecution and fine if the trespass is proved.

A Magistrate’s Court may, upon proof of the trespass, cause such animal to be sold by public auction, and the proceeds of the sale, after deducting therefrom such fine as the Court may award and such further sum as the Court may order to be paid for the expense of detaining, feeding and selling such animal, shall be returned to the owner of the animal on demand.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to render the railway administration liable for any injury to any animal trespassing or straying upon the railway or upon any land appertaining to the railway for which the railway administration would not have been liable if this section had not become law.