Border Fence Maintenance Act 1921
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27 Offences
27 Offences
Any person who:
(a), (b) (Repealed)
(c) leaves open any gate in a dog-proof fence, or
(d) without lawful authority (the proof of which shall be on the person claiming to have the same), destroys, injures, tears up, depresses, cuts or removes any portion of a dog-proof fence or gate, or fence or gate apparently intended to protect any land from wild dogs, or excavates under, or in any way tampers with any portion of such fence or gate, so as to thereby endanger its effectiveness as a dog-proof fence or gate, or
(e) attempts to do any such act as is hereinbefore mentioned, or procures the same to be done,
is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.
s 27: Am 1985 No 195, Sch 1 (19); 1992 No 112, Sch 1; 2015 No 24, Sch 8.44 [21].