{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-1972/section-10.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1972/7",
  "legislation_title": "Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-act-northern-ireland-1972",
  "path": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Offences and penalties.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) keeps an unlicensed petshop, animal boarding, riding or zoological establishment; or\n(b) being licensed, fails, after reasonable warning, to comply with any condition contained in his licence; or\n(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\n(d) wilfully obstructs or delays an authorised officer in the exercise of his functions under this Part;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1994 NI 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/7/section/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:09.607708+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}