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Sample newspaper notice for a horse agistment lien under the Impounding of Livestock Act 1994

Note: the following text must appear in the newspaper Notice for the creation of a lien.


Attention: .............................................................................................................
(name of horse owner).

Agistment fees are owed for the horse left at ....................................................

..............................................................................................................................

(general location of the property at which the horse is being agisted) by you.

Part 3A of the Impounding of Livestock Act 1994 now applies.

For details contact .................................................................................................
(contact details of person issuing the default notice).

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The Notice must be published in the "public notices" section of a daily newspaper that circulates generally in Victoria.

If contacted by the horse owner after this Notice is published in the newspaper, the landowner then provides the horse owner with a Default Notice (See 'Sample Default Notice' for details).

If a Notice is published in a newspaper in accordance with the Act, the default notice is taken to be served on the day the newspaper containing the notice is published.

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Page last updated: 10 Jul 2020

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