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5. Each license holder who is the holder of a miner’s right, having a claim within the Hundred, or who is the holder of a business license issued under any Gold Fields Act, occupying land by virtue of license within the Hundred, shall be entitled to run two head of great cattle within the Hundred free of charge.

6. If any person not being licensed as aforesaid shall depasture any cattle on the common waste lands within the Hundred, or being so licensed, shall depasture on such waste lands as aforesaid a greater number of cattle than shall have been apportioned to him, every such person shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding fifty pounds.

7. Any license holder may be required by the Ranger at any time to make a return in the form provided in the Schedule hereto, and any person who shall fail to make such return for a period of 48 hours after being required so to do, or who shall make a false return, shall be liable to a penalty of £20.

8. No diseased cattle shall be depastured upon, nor shall any pigs or goats be allowed at large within any Hundred, and any person or persons who shall turn out or depasture any diseased cattle, or suffer any pig or goat to be at large within any Hundred, shall be liable to a penalty of £5, to be recovered in a summary way.

9. In the event of scab breaking out in any flock of sheep which are being depastured within any Hundred, the Waste Land Board, in conjunction with the Government Sheep Inspector, shall take such steps as they may deem necessary to eradicate and prevent the spread of the disease.

10. Any license holder depasturing sheep upon any Hundred shall do so within such limits as the Waste Land Board may appoint, and in the event of such sheep being allowed to trespass beyond the boundaries so appointed they may be impounded in manner provided by section 18 of the “Otago Waste Land Act 1866 Amendment Act 1869,” and in assessing the number of sheep which may be depastured five sheep shall be equivalent to one head of great cattle.

11. No entire animal above six months of age, except horses (which may be twelve months), and rams, when put to the ewe in season, and no animal of a vicious or otherwise objectionable character shall be depastured, or allowed to be at large on the unfenced lands in any Hundred; and any person or persons who shall turn out or depasture any entire animal over the above specified ages, or any animal of a vicious or otherwise objectionable character, or otherwise offending against these regulations, shall be liable to a penalty of £5, to be recovered in a summary way.

12. All unbranded cattle above six months of age depasturing on the Crown Lands within any Hundred shall be liable to be impounded in manner provided by section 123 of the Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872.

13. Any cattle found depasturing on any Hundred, not being the property of or in the custody of a license holder, or depasturing on any Hundred in contravention of these regulations, may be impounded, and the owner or custodian of such cattle shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of £1, to be recovered in a summary way.

14. Any person disturbing or harassing cattle, great or small, depastured within the Hundred, shall be liable to a penalty of £5, to be recovered in a summary way, provided always that any person holding a license to depasture cattle within the Hundred, or any person duly authorised by him, may drive cattle so depastured for the purpose of collecting such of them as may belong to him, and for the legitimate use of the right to pasture within the Hundred; but in case it should be necessary for such purpose to drive any cattle belonging to any other person a greater distance than one mile, the person so driving such cattle must take them to the nearest stock-yard and there separate his own cattle from those of other persons, and return the latter to the place from whence they were driven.

15. No person shall remove cattle from beyond the boundary of the Hundred other than those belonging to him, or for the removal of which he shall have due authority, under a penalty of £20, to be recovered in a summary way.

16. Any person shooting cattle on any Hundred without the consent in writing of the Waste Land Board previously obtained, shall be liable to a penalty of £20, to be recovered in a summary way.

17. Any person who shall set fire to any herbage or grass upon Crown Lands within any Hundred, without the consent in writing of the Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board previously obtained, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of £5, to be recovered in a summary way; but such consent will not protect any person from the consequences of any loss or damage which may be sustained by any person by reason of carelessness with which such burning of the Hundred may be performed.

18. The Waste Land Board may appoint one or more Rangers for each Hundred, whose duty shall be to see that these regulations are carried into effect, and to report any neglect or breach thereof to the Waste Land Board.

19. The word “cattle,” in these Regulations, shall mean all animals included within the meanings attached to great and small cattle by the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” and shall include, except where the context clearly shows a contrary intention, a single head of great or small cattle, as well as any larger number.

SCHEDULE.

PROVINCE OF OTAGO.

Return of Acreage occupied (or owned) and of Stock depastured (or desired to be depastured) by of within the Hundred.

I, of do hereby solemnly declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that the above is a correct return of the acreage occupied (or owned) of the land unenclosed and of the stock owned by me