# Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act 1988, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S

An Act to enable a court to disqualify a person for having custody of an animal on a first conviction of cruelty; and to increase the penalties for offences relating to animal fights, and to make further provision with respect to attendance at such fights, in England and Wales and to penalise attendance at such fights in Scotland.
[29th July 1988]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/29/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-animals-amendment-act-1988/introduction
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