The Short Title of this Act is “The Sheep Act 1878 Amendment Act, 1884.”

It shall be read and construed together with “The Sheep Act, 1878” (herein referred to as “the said Act”).

If any Inspector shall be satisfied that any sheep in a flock are infected with lice, he shall give the owner a written notice to dip such sheep forthwith to the satisfaction of the said Inspector, or any other Inspector; and if such owner refuses, neglects, or fails to comply with such notice within a period of one month from the giving thereof, he shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty of not less than five pounds nor more than fifty pounds.

If after the expiration of three months from the date of such conviction such sheep shall not be dipped to the satisfaction of any Inspector, such owner shall, upon conviction, be liable to a farther penalty of not less than twenty pounds, nor more than fifty pounds; and so on for every succeeding period of three months each.

Sections thirty-three and forty-five of the said Act shall respectively apply, mutatis mutandis, to all sheep infected with lice after any notice is given to the owner thereof to dip the same, as mentioned in the last-preceding section, and until the Inspector has given such owner a certificate that such sheep have been properly dipped, and in respect of every person who drives or depastures, or suffers such sheep to stray as in the aforesaid forty-fifth section mentioned.

Section sixty-eight of the said Act is hereby repealed.

If any sheep infected with lice shall be found in any pound, or in any public yard or yards, or in any yard or yards at which sheep are offered for sale, the owner of the sheep so infected shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound nor more than five pounds.