Environment:
Animal Welfare:
The enforcement tools available under the various pieces of animal welfare legislation are fairly limited with only formal caution or prosecution being available. If a prosecution is successful then the court has the power the revoke a licence.
In general terms pursuing a formal approach is only likely where the conditions in which animals are kept are found to breach both licence conditions and seriously affect the welfare of those animals. Where conditions were so serious that a prosecution was considered to be justified, then the Council would request the court to consider its power of revocation.
Typical situations that could result in a prosecution being taken are: -
- Overcrowding of animals such that injury or death resulted
- Not providing proper veterinary care such that animals suffered unnecessarily.
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