Chapter VII MISCELLANEOUS

(1) Nothing contained in this Act shall be deemed to preclude any person whose crops or other produce or land have been damaged by trespass of cattle from suing for compensation in any competent court. (2) Any compensation paid to such person under this Act by order of the convicting magistrate shall be set off and deducted from any sum claimed by or awarded to him as compensation in such suit.

The State Government may, by notification, authorise any local authority within the area subject to the jurisdiction of such local authority, to exercise all or any of the powers of the State Government or the District Magistrate under this Act, subject to such restrictions and conditions as may be specified in such notification.

(1) The State Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication, by notification, make rules to carry out all or any of the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular but without prejudice to the generality at the foregoing provision, such rules may provide for the following, namely:- (i) the form of, and the procedure relating to the declaration, and the scales of deposit to be made under section 13; (ii) the procedure regulating the making of security deposit, custody and refund thereof ; (iii) the manner in which any cattle is to be disposed of ; (iv) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.

Every notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 10, sub-section (4) of section 25 and section 30, and every rule made under section 31 shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is issued or made, before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following both Houses agree in making any modification in the notification or the rule, or both Houses agree that the notification or the rule should not be issued or made, the notification or the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything done under that notification or rule.

The Mysore Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 (Mysore Act I of 1871), as in force in the Mysore Area, the Hyderabad Cattle Trespass Act, 1337 F (Hyderabad Act V of 1337 Fasli) as in force in the Gulburga Area, the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 (Central Act I of 1871) as in force in the Mangalore and Kollegal Area, Belgaum Area, and the Coorg District, are hereby repealed : Provided that the provisions of section 6 of the Karnataka General Clauses Act, 1899 (Karnataka Act III of 1899), shall be applicable in respect of the repeal of the said enactments and sections 8 and 26 of the said Act shall be applicable as if the said enactments had been repealed and re-enacted by this Act.