Niue (Amendment - Animals ) Act 1998 (No. 232). Country/Territory Niue (New Zealand) Document type Legislation Date 1998 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to repeal and replace sections 219 and 226 of the Niue Act 1966. Subject Livestock Keyword Grazing/transhumance Animal welfare Offences/penalties Pastoralism Geographical area Oceania, Small Island Developing States Abstract The sections here replaced deal with trespass of animals on land or straying and the prohibition of cruelty to animals. A person must not permit a horse, sheep, pig, goat, or cattle to wander or be at large in a public place or to trespass on land. Further its shall be prohibited to:(a) cruelly beat, overdrive, overload, abuse, torture, or otherwise ill treat an animal (i.e. domestic and wild animals and birds), or (b) being the owner or having the charge of an animal: (i) omit to supply it with Full text English