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CAP. 139]
Public Health (Animals) (Boarding Establishment) Regulations
(1973 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 116/73.
INTERS LN40189
PUBLIC HEALTH (ANIMALS) (BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT) REGULATIONS
(Cap. 139, section 3)
LA YOS/GO.
Citation.
Interpretation.
Application.
Prohibition
of keeping boarding establishment for animals
without licence.
[1st August, 1973.]
1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Animals) (Boarding Establishment) Regulations.
2. (1) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires—
"housing facility" means a room, building, premises or other
place used to contain a primary enclosure;
"licence" means a licence granted or renewed under regulation 5;
"outdoor area" means an outdoor area or space, whether containing a primary enclosure or not, used for the keeping, exercise or containment of animals;
"primary enclosure" means a room, pen, cage, compartment, hutch
or structure used to restrict animals to a limited amount of
space;
"sanitary" means physically clean, and free from agents which are injurious to health and from any other obnoxious or offensive material.
(2) For the purposes of these regulations, a person keeps a boarding establishment for animals if he carries on a business of providing food and accommodation for animals in return for a fee or other money consideration paid by the owner or person having control of the animals, and the place at which such accommodation is provided shall be deemed to be the place at which the business is carried on.
3. These regulations shall not apply to the keeping of any boarding establishment for animals at a place occupied by or under the management of the Crown.
4. No person shall keep a boarding establishment for animals save under and in accordance with a licence granted under these regulations.
Power of Director to grant licence.
5. (1) Upon application in the form specified by the Director, the Director may grant a licence to any person to keep a boarding establishment for animals and may renew any such licence.