LegalizeCONTROL OF HORSES ACT, 1996
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4 amending acts · 2024-03-06, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MAYOR OF LIMERICK) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT 2024
Act to provide for the control of horses and to make provision for the licensing of horses in urban and other areas where horses cause a danger to persons or property or nuisance and to amend certain other enactments relating to animals and to provide for related matters
- (c) shall cause, procure, or assist at the fighting or baiting of any animal; or shall keep, use, manage, or act or assist in the management of, any premises or place for the purpose, or partly for the purpose, of fighting or baiting any animal, or shall permit any premises or place to be so kept, managed, or used, or shall receive, or cause or procure any person to receive, money for the admission of any person to such premises or place; or
- (d) shall wilfully, without any reasonable cause or excuse, administer, or cause or procure, or being the owner permit, such administration of, any poisonous or injurious drug or substance to any animal, or shall wilfully, without any reasonable cause or excuse, cause any such substance to be taken by any animal; or
- (e) shall subject, or cause or procure, or being the owner permit, to be subjected, any animal to any operation which is performed without due care and humanity; or
- (f) being the owner or having charge or control of any animal shall without reasonable cause or excuse abandon it, whether permanently or not, in circumstances likely to cause it unnecessary suffering, or cause or procure or, being the owner, permit it to be so abandoned;
such person shall be guilty of an offence of cruelty within the meaning of this Act and shall be liable—
- (i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding £1,500, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both, or
- (ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding £10,000, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
49 Amendment of Pounds (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935 (increase of fines).
49.—The Pounds (Provision and Maintenance) Act, 1935, is hereby amended—
- (a) in section 8 (2), by the substitution for “£500” (inserted by section 7 of the Animals Act, 1985), of “£1,500”, and
- (b) in section 9, by the substitution for “£750” (inserted by the said section 7) of “£1,500”.
50 Amendment of section 5 of Animals Act, 1985 (increase of fines).
50.—Section 5 of the Animals Act, 1985, is hereby amended—
- (a) in subsection (5), by the substitution for “£500” of “£1,500”, and
- (b) in subsection (6), by the substitution for “£750” of “£1,500”.
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