Section 10 Offences and penalties.

(1)

Any person who—

(a)

keeps an unlicensed petshop, animal boarding, riding or zoological establishment; or

(b)

being licensed, fails, after reasonable warning, to comply with any condition contained in his licence; or

(c)

gives information which he knows to be false in a material particular to an authorised officer acting in the exercise of his functions under this Part; or

(d)

wilfully obstructs or delays an authorised officer in the exercise of his functions under this Part;

shall be guilty of an offence.

F1(1A)

Any person who carries on a business of selling animals as pets in a street or public place, or from a vehicle, stall or barrow, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2)

Any person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)( a), ( b) or ( c) or subsection (1A) shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to both, and any person guilty of an offence under subsection (1)( d) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1994 NI 6

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (prosp.) by Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 16), ss. 57(2), 59, Sch. 5 (with ss. 1(2), 52(1), 53, 54) and the repeal being partly in operation, as to which see individual sections