Damages for neglect to report impounding

(1) If any person impounds any cattle and does not within reasonable time thereafter make complaint to a magistrate of the damage committed by such cattle, a magistrate of the district in which the impounding took place, may on complaint of the owner of such cattle, or his agent, summon before him the person impounding the cattle. (2) Upon the appearance of the owner or his agent or, in his absence, upon proof of the service of such summons either personally or at his last or usual place of residence, the magistrate may proceed in such and in the like manner to all intents and purposes as a magistrate is authorised to proceed and act on the return of any summons issued on the complaint of any person sustaining damages by the trespass of cattle.