222641-1935-Supplementary-Bills-read-a-first-time--Defence-Contribution-Amendment-Prevention-of-Cruelty-to-Animals — Page 6

1799

(d) loads any animal into or discharges any animal from any vessel or railway truck on to another vessel or railway truck or on to a wharf or on to the shore, or on to any platform in such a way or with such appliances as to subject such animal to needless or avoidable suffering; or

(e) causes, procures or assists at the fighting or baiting of any animal, or keeps, uses, manages, or acts or assists in the management of any premises or place for the purpose, or partly for the purpose, of fighting or baiting any animal, or permits any premises or place to be so kept, managed or used, or receives, or causes or procures any person to receive, money for the admission of any person to such premises or place; or

(f) employs, or causes or procures or, being the owner, permits to be employed, in any work or labour any animal which, in consequence of any disease, infirmity, wound or sore, or otherwise, is unfit to be so employed; or

(g) brings into the Colony, or drives, carries, transports, removes, or has or keeps, or knowingly suffers to be had or kept under his control or on his premises, any animal in any way which may cause it needless or avoidable suffering,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(2) For the purposes of this section, an owner shall be deemed to have permitted cruelty within the meaning of this Ordinance if he shall have failed to exercise reasonable care and supervision in respect of the protection of the animal therefrom: Provided that where an owner is convicted of permitting cruelty within the meaning of this Ordinance by reason only of his having failed to exercise such care and supervision, he shall not be liable to imprisonment without the option of a fine.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the commission or omission of any act in the course of the destruction, or the preparation for destruction, of any animal as food for mankind, unless such destruction or such preparation was accompanied by the infliction of unnecessary suffering.

seizure

4. (1) Any Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, Food Officer or Power of Police Officer may arrest without warrant any person who he arrests, has reason to believe is guilty of an offence against section 3 or entry and against any regulation under this Ordinance, whether upon search. his own view thereof or upon the complaint and information of any other person. Any such other person shall declare his name and place of abode to any such surgeon or officer.

(2) Any animal, conveyance or article concerning or by which any such offence has been committed may be seized by any such officer and taken to a police station or to any convenient place, and there kept, unless given up sooner by order of a Magistrate, until the charge is decided in due course of law.

(3) Any such surgeon or officer may stop in any street or public place and examine any animal in respect of which he suspects that an offence has been committed under section 3.