Inclosure Act 1852

XXXIII Penalty where Stock found on regulated Pastures.

Any Person having any Stock or Animals on any regulated Pasture contrary to the Regulations of such Pasture, on being convicted thereof before Two Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction in the County or Place shall forfeit and pay for and in respect of each Head of Stock or Animal found in such regulated Pasture such Sum of Money, not exceeding Five Pounds, as such Justices shall think proper to inflict, by way of Penalty, and such Sum shall be paid to the Field Reeve, to be applied by him in aid of the Rates by the firstly herein-before recited Act authorized to be raised on the Owners of Stints in regulated Pastures; and the Provisions of the Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to malicious Injuries to Property, concerning the Prosecution of Offenders punishable on Summary Conviction under such Act, and the Form of such Conviction, and concerning the Cases of a Summary Conviction under such Act, where the Sum which shall be forfeited for the Amount of Injury done shall not be paid, and all other Provisions of such Act consequent upon or in relation to such Proceedings and Conviction, shall be applicable to the Offences under this Act, and the Prosecution and Conviction for the same respectively, save that any Matter by the said Act directed to be done by the Justices shall be done by Two Justices as aforesaid: Provided always, that no Remedy which any Field Reeve might otherwise have under the firstly herein-before recited Act, or otherwise, shall be in any Manner prejudiced or affected by the Provision last herein-before contained.