Paragraph 4
The performance by any person of or over the age of eighteen of any of the following operations, that is to say —
(a)
the castration of a male animal or the caponising of an animal, whether by chemical means or otherwise;
(b)
the docking of the tail of a lamb;
(c)
the docking of the tail of a dog before its eyes are open;
(d)
the amputation of the dew claws of a dog before its eyes are open.