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UK - Animal Welfare - Animal Welfare Act 2006
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UK ST 2006 c 45
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An Act establishing penalties for engaging in certain activities that are considered detrimental to animal welfare. Activities that constitute offenses include: causing an animal unnecessary suffering, mutilating an animal’s body, docking a dog’s tail (with certain limited exceptions), administering a poisonous or injurious substance to an animal, and engaging in or attending animal fighting. Nothing in the Act applies to anything lawfully done under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 or to anything which occurs in the normal course of fishing.
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UK - Boarding - Animal Boarding Establishments Act 1963
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1963 c. 43
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The 1963 Animal Boarding Establishments Act deals with places where the boarding of animals is being carried on as a business. This act requires such establishments to be licensed by the local authority. The act defines "boarding establishments" as those premises, including private dwellings, where the business consists of providing accommodation for other people’s cats and dogs. When deciding to issue a license, the local authority shall consider the suitability of the conditions (e.g., size of quarters, lighting, food, water, disease control, etc.) present at the boarding establishment.
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UK - Circus - Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925
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1925 CHAPTER 38
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The Performing Animals Act 1925 requires any person who exhibits or trains any performing (vertebrate) animal to be registered with a local authority. This information is kept in the local register. The law also gives power to local authorities to prohibit animal training or exhibition where it is accompanied by cruelty. Any officer of a local authority duly authorised in that behalf by the local authority and any constable may inspect performance premises during reasonable hours. Failure to become properly registered or concealing an animal to avoid inspection makes a person guilty of an offence.
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UK - Cruelty - Animal Welfare Act
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Animal Welfare Act of 2006
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This is the overarching general anti-cruelty law for the UK, which uses suffering as a key concept.
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UK - Cruelty - Protection against Cruel Tethering Act 1988
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1988 c.31
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The Protection against Cruel Tethering Act 1988 is an act to protect horses, asses and mules against cruel tethering. This means in such conditions or such a manner to cause that animal unnecessary suffering.
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UK - Cruelty - Protection of Animals Act 1911
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1911 Ch 27
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The main piece of anti-cruelty legislation applicable to England and Wales. Click here for the 2006 Amendments to this Act.
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UK - Dangerous - Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 ("DWAA")
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1976 c. 38
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The Dangerous Wild Animals Act ("DWAA") was originally enacted in 1976 and amended in 2010. The act ensures that individuals who keep wild animals do so in a way that minimizes the risk to the public. In particular, the act provides that no person may keep any dangerous wild animal except under the authority of a licence granted by a local authority. The local authority that holds the licence may enter the premises where the animal is being kept at all reasonable times to determine whether an offence has been committed in violation of the act. Zoos, circuses, and pet shops are exempt from the act. The act has an accompanying Schedule that specifies the kinds of dangerous wild animals for which a person must obtain a licence under the act.
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UK - Dangerous Dogs - Dangerous Dogs (Amendment) Act 1997
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1997 CHAPTER 53
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This amendment affects the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. The Amendment Act allows a court to exercise discretion in deciding whether to destroy a prohibited dog (e.g., a "pit bull" type dog, Japanese Tosa, Fila Brasileiro, Dogo Argentino, or any dog with the physical appearance, not necessarily breed, of a fighting dog).
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UK - Dog - Breeding and Sale of Dogs (Welfare) Act 1999
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1999 c. 11
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This Act amends and extends certain enactments relating to the commercial breeding and sale of dogs; regulates the welfare of dogs kept in commercial breeding establishments; extends powers of inspection; and establishes records of dogs kept at such establishments. This Act substantially amended the Breeding of Dogs Acts 1973 and 1991.
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UK - Dog - Breeding of Dogs Act 1973
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1973 c. 60
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This Act establishes a regime of local authority licensing and inspection of dog breeding establishments.
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UK - Dog - Breeding of Dogs Act 1991
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1991 c. 64
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This Act extends the powers of inspection for the purposes of the Breeding of Dogs Act 1973 to premises not covered by a licence under that Act, thereby enabling local authorities to investigate suspicions that a dog breeding establishment is operating without the necessary license
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UK - Farming - UK General Welfare of Farmed Animals Regs. 2000
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Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 1870
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The UK's general animal welfare legislation affecting any animal (including fish, reptiles or amphibians) bred or kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for other farming purposes.
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UK - Farming - UK Welfare of Farmed Animals (Amend.)
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Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 1646
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These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002. The provisions mainly concern egg-laying hens.
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UK - Fighting - Cockfighting Act 1952
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1952 c.52
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The Cockfighting Act, 1952 makes it unlawful to have possession of any instrument or appliance designed or adapted for use in connection with the fighting of a domestic fowl. A person guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine.
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UK - Fur - Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000
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2000 CHAPTER 33
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An Act to prohibit the keeping of animals solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur; to provide for the making of payments in respect of the related closure of certain businesses; and for connected purposes.
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UK - Pets - Abandonment of Animals Act 1960
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1960 c. 43
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An Act to prohibit the abandonment of animals in circumstances likely to cause unnecessary suffering thereto.
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UK - Pets - Pet Animals Act 1951
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UK ST 1951 c 35
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An Act establishing a licensing structure for pet shops in the United Kingdom. The Act sets forth certain conditions that local authorities may consider in determining whether or not to grant someone a pet shop license. In determining whether or not to grant a license, local authorities may investigate applicants and confirm that animals will be kept in a sanitary and suitable physical environment, that they will be fed and watered regularly, and that they will not be sold before they reach an appropriate age, among other factors.
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UK - Riding - Riding Establishments Act 1964
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Riding Establishments Act 1964
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An Act to regulate the keeping of riding establishments; and for purposes connected therewith.
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UK - Riding - Riding Establishments Act 1970
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1970 CHAPTER 32
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An Act to confer further powers on local authorities with respect to the licensing of riding establishments and to amend the Riding Establishments Act 1964.
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UK - Welfare - Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954
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1954 c. 46
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An Act to extend the provisions of the Protection of Animals Acts in relation to the performance of operations on animals. The statute provides a list of operations that may only be performed with the use of anaesthetic.
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UK - Welfare - Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1964
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1964 c. 39
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An Act to amend the Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954.
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UK - Zoos - Zoo Licensing Act 1981
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1981 c. 37
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The Zoo Licensing Act 1981 is an Act to regulate by licence the conduct of zoos. The Act defines a zoo "[as] an establishment where wild animals are kept for exhibition to the public otherwise than for the purposes of a circus and otherwise than as a pet shop; and this Act applies to any zoo to which members of the public have access, with or without charge for admission, on more than seven days in any period of 12 consecutive months".
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