Sale of Stolen Cattle Prevention Act 1960.

This Act concerns procedures for the awarding or recognition of ownership of mares, fillies, foals, geldings, colts, bulls, bullocks, cows, heifers, steers, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, pigs, mules and asses that are suspected of having been stolen and have been seized or identified by the enforcing authorities. On complaint or information on oath the Magistrate of a District Court may undertake action against possessors of cattle for purposes of establishing the real ownership of the cattle possessed. If it appears to a District Court, after hearing evidence on oath or affirmation that the cattle the subject of the summons or warrant were stolen within the period of one year immediately preceding the making of the complaint or the laying of the information, the Court may: adjudge the person making the complaint or laying the information to be the owner of the cattle; and issue a warrant under its seal to an officer of the Police Force commanding him or her to seize the cattle immediately, wherever they may be found; and to restore and give peaceable possession of the cattle to the person adjudged to be the owner. A person from whom or from whose possession any cattle have been taken under a warrant may recover from his vendor the amount paid by him as the purchase price of the cattle.