Section 13 — Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays penalties and charges.
The Cattle-Trespass Act, 1871
13. Procedure when owner claims the cattle and pays 1[penalties] and charges.---If the owner of the impounded cattle or his agent appear and claim the cattle, the pound-keeper shall deliver them to him on 2[payment of penalties imposed] and charges incurred in respect of such cattle.
The owner or his agent, on taking back the cattle, shall sign a receipt for them in the register kept by the pound-keeper.
STATE AMENDMENTS
Maharashtra.--
Amendment of section 13 of Act 1 of 1871.--In the principal Act, to the first paragraph of section 13, the following shall be added, namely:--
"and on depositing the amount of security prescribed under section 12A."
[Vide Bombay Act XIII of 1959, s. 6]
Source notes
1. Subs. by 8 of 2026, s. 2 and Sch., for “fines” (w.e.f. 1-6-2026)
2. Subs. by s. 2 and Sch., ibid., for “payment of the fines” (w.e.f. 1-6-2026).