# Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, Section 18: Responsibility for animals


(1) In this Part, references to being responsible for an animal mean being responsible for it on a permanent or temporary basis.
(2) In this Part, references to being responsible for an animal include being in charge of it.
(3) For the purposes of this Part, a person who owns an animal is always to be regarded as being a person who is responsible for it.
(4) For the purposes of this Part, a person (“person A”) is to be regarded as responsible for any animal for which a person who is under 16 years of age, of whom person A has actual care and control, is responsible.
(5) For the purposes of this Part, a person does not relinquish responsibility for an animal by reason only of abandoning it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/11/section/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-and-welfare-scotland-act-2006/section-18
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