{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-act-1971/section-7B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-act-1971/section-7B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/22",
  "legislation_title": "Animals Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-act-1971",
  "path": "section/7B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7B",
  "heading": "Powers of freeholders and occupiers in England to detain horses",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a horse is on any land in England without lawful authority.\n(2) The horse may be detained—\n(a) in any case, by the occupier of the land, and\n(b) if the freeholder is not the occupier, by the freeholder with the occupier's consent.\n(3) Section 7C contains further provision about detention under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7B inserted (26.5.2015) by Control of Horses Act 2015 (c. 23), ss. 2, 5(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/22/section/7B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:33:54.861292+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}