The Short Title of this Act is “The Rabbit Nuisance Act Amendment Act, 1901”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1882” (herein called “the principal Act”).

If within a reasonable time after the service of such notice any occupier or owner on whom the same is served has, in the opinion of the Magistrate adjudicating, failed or neglected to take reasonable or diligent steps to promote the destruction of rabbits on the land mentioned in such notice, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds if the area of the land is less than five hundred acres, ten pounds if such area exceeds five hundred acres but is less than two thousand acres, and twenty pounds if the area exceeds two thousand acres.

After the expiration of one month from the date of a conviction under the last preceding section, if, in the opinion of the adjudicating Magistrate, the occupier or owner has failed or neglected to take reasonable or diligent steps to promote the destruction of rabbits on the land mentioned in such notice, the said occupier or owner upon whom the notice referred to in the last preceding section was served shall be liable to a further penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds and not less than five pounds, and so on for each succeeding period of one month during which, in the opinion of the Magistrate, rabbits exist on such land.

The provisions of this Act are in substitution of the enactments mentioned in the Schedule hereto, which enactments are hereby accordingly repealed.