PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS REGULATIONS

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS REGULATIONS

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 169).
(Ordinance No. 44 Of 1935).

[1st January, 1940.]

PART I.

General.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals Regulations.

2. Baskets, crates and cages, other than pig crates,
shall be large enough to allow free movement in all direc-
tions of every animal therein.

3. Bird cages shall have sliding or removable bottoms
and the bottorns shall be of such construction as to prevent
droppings from birds in one cage falling on to birds in
another cage.

4. Perches in bird cages shall be so arranged that
droppings frorn birds on higher perches do not fall on birds
on lower perches and the perches to each cage shall be
sufficient for all the birds in such cage to find room to
roost.

5. Adequate shelter frorn sun or rain shali be pro-
vided for all animals in captivity.

6. Baskets, crates and cages containing animals shall
be kept clean and properly ventilated.

7. All premises in which animals arc in confinement
shall be kept clean, properly lighted, ventilated, drained,
and in good repair.

8. All animals shall have a constant and adequate
supply of clear fresh water.





9. All mairned or ailing animals shall be separately
confined.

10. Any basket, crate or cage in which any pig, bird,
dog or cat is carried or kept shall be so constructed as to
prevent ally such animal from being injured.

PART II.

Import and Export of Live Stock, Cattle, etc.

11. The master, owner, or agent of every vessel
leaving ally port of the. Colony carrying, niore thall tell
head of cattle for export shall provide suitable food and
fresh water for all cattle carried in the said vessel sufficient
for the intended voyage, and in addition shall provide-
(a)for voyages of less than three days average dura-
tion, one day's extra ration for each head of cattle;
or
(b)for voyages of more than three days average dura-
tion, two days' extra rations for each head of
cattle.
He shall also cause all the cattle carried in the said
vessel to be provided with a sufficient quantity of food and
water in every twenty-four hours frorn the tirne, of ernbarka-
tion till the tinic of final disembarkation, and shall carrv
such number of men as shall, ill the opinion of the Senior
Veterinary Officer, be requisite to attend to the cattle oil
board. Such men shall not be employed on any other
duties during the voyage.

12. No cattle carried on board ally vessel shall be
secured by the nose, but all such cattle shall be tied by
a halter of a length stifficient to permit the animal to lie
down, and of a strength sufficient to bear the weight of
the animal.

13. Every vessel carrying more than ten ]lead of cattle
shall be provided with secure- footholds for the use of the
cattle on board, and sh all be fitted with weather boards
or other protection for such cattle from sun and rain and
sea, and with a sufficient number of pens. No pen shall
be constructed of bamboo, and no pen shall accommodate





more than four head of cattle (two calves under six months
being counted as one). The pens shall be arranged so that
the cattle stand athwartships and shall be substantially
constructed and securely fastened so as to stand rough
weather. The pens shall be cleansed at least once a day.

14. The Senior Veterinary Officer, any food officer
and any police officer may board any vessel within the
territorial waters of the Colony at any tirne in order lo
ascertain whether regulations i i to 13 are complied with.

15. No vessel shall be permitted to carry more. than
two hundred head of cattle for export at any one time.

16. ach anirnal conveyed 'In an), vessel shall, except
as hereinlifter provided, have not less than fourteen square
feet of deck-space allotted. Footholds shall be provided to
prevent slipping, and the animals shall stand athwartships
and shall be secured by a halter and not be tied by the
nose : Provided that in the case of cattle tinder two years
of age the deck-space allotted shall be fourteen square feet
for every two Such cattle.

Sheep and Goats.

17. Sheep and goats shal! be carried in ,tny vessel in
substantially built pens containing not more than forty in
each pen, and three square feet shall be allowed per head.

Pigs.

18. (1) Not more than forty pigs in any vessel shall
be placed in one pen. Three square feet shall be allowed
per head, two pigs each under So Ibs. live weight to count
as one, three pigs each under So Ibs. live weight to count
as one.

(2) ~,klhen carried in crates, a separate crate shall be
assigned to each pig. Every such crate shall be of suffi-
ciently large dimensions to hold the pig comfortably and
shall also have a srnall enough mesh to prevent the pig
from being injured. Crates sliall be arranged in rows and,
if stacked, there shall be two layers or tiers only. Rows,
if not single, shall be two deep only. Crates shall be so





arranged that all the pigs' heads in a single row face the
same way, and in a double row face outwards. On the
side or sides of a row on which the pigs' heads face, in
alleyway shall be left, eighteen inches wide, to allow food
and water to be given. All the crates in a row which is
not stacked shall be securely fastened together. In the case
of a stacked row there shall be pairs of strong upright
posts, which rnay be of a detachable type, of a height not
less than the top of the upper layer or tier, securely fastened
to the deck and supporting the row or stack. Such pairs
of posts shall be fixed at each end of the stack and at
intervals of not more than five crates in the stack's length.
Each pdr of posts supporting a stack shall be securely,-
fastened together. Large flat-bottomed boats shall be used
for conveying pigs across the harbour.

Poultry.

19. The baskets or crates in which poultry are carried
are to be supplied with mats or to be othenvise so con-
structed as to prevent the poultry getting their legs through.

General.

20. The Director of Marine may, and, if requested to
do so by the Senior Veterinary Officer, shall, refuse to
grant a port clearance for any vessel on board of which
the requirements of these regulations have riot been or are
not being- complied with.


PART III.

Bird Shops.

[1st January, 1940.]

21. In this Part 'bird shop' means any premises
where any aninial not being an equine or bovine aninnal,
or a dog, cat, pig, sheep, goat or poultry is kept or exposed
for sale or exhibition or sold (whether for consumption as
food or not).

22. It shall not be lawful to keep . or carry on the
business of a bird shop unless a licence for such bird shop





has been issued by the Urban Council. Such licence shall
be additional to any licence issued under the Public Health
(Food) Ordinance.

23. No holder of a licence shall sub-let, assign or
transfer his licence without the written permission of the
Urban Council.

24. Every holder of a licence and his servants or
agents shail permit the Senior Veterinary Officer and any
officer of the Sanitary Department, at all reasonable times
to enter and inspect the licensed premises and to inspect
the aninlials kept therein and the conditions under which
they are kept.

25. The holder of the licence shall during business
hours be in attendance at the licensed premises and shall
not absent himself therefrom for more than one month
without the written permission of the Chairman of the
Urban Council.

26. It shall be lawful for the 1,)rb~iii Council to impose
on any licence such conditions as it thinks fit.

27. It shall be lawful for the Urban Council to refuse
to grant or to renew, revoke or suspend any licence of
any bird shop if it appears to tile Urban Council that by
reason of the conduct of the applicant for or holder of the
licence or by reason of the conditions of the bird shop
or the cages or animals therein, it is not in the interests
of the health or comfort of, or the prevention of cruelty
to animals to grant or renew the licence or to permit the
holder of the licence to continue to keep or carry on the
business of a bird shop.

28. The fee for the grant or renewal of a licence shall
be sixty dollars. Every licence shall be renewable annually
on ist January. If a licence is issued on or after ist july
in any year, half fee shall be payable.

29. Every licence shall specify as exactly as possible
the premises to which it relates and no animal shall be
kept except in the premises so specified,





30. No licence shall be issued in respect of any pre-
mises situate above the ground floor or in respect of any
premises ',here any business in addition to that of the bird
shop is carried on.

31. Except with the permission of the Urban Council-
(a)the ground surface of every bird -;hop shall be
paved with a layer of not less than six inches of
good lime-concrete or not less than three inches
of cement-concrete composed of one part of cement,
three parts of sand and five parts of stone broken
to pass through a one-inch ring, and the surface
thereof shall be rendered si-nooth and impervious
with a layer either of asphalt or cenient-mortar of
not less than half an inch in thickness or of such
other material of such nature and thickness as the
Urban Council may approve; and
(b)the walls shall be surfaced to a height of ten feet
or to the ceiling (if it is less than ten feet above
the floor) with cement-mortar rendered smooth or
such other non-absorbent material as the Urban
Council may approve.

32. (1) Every bird shop and every room used as a
bird shop or as part of a bird shop shall, unless the front
thereof is at all times kept clear and unobstructed and open
to the external air, be provided with a window or windows
the area of which shall be equal at least to one tenth of
the area of the floor of the bird shop or room.

(2) Any window may be situated in or form part of
any door of the bird shop or room.

(3) AI: least one half of the window area shall be
capable of being opened to the external air.

33. (1) Every cage or receptacle shall have an open
barred front 'and the area of the framework and bars shali
not exceed one third of the total area of the front.

(2) Every cage or receptacle shall be so placed that
free access to the front of the cage or receptacle is avail-
able at all times.





34. (1) No cage or receptacle shall be used in an),
bird shop for the confinement of any animal. (not being
a winged animal or a reptile or insect) unless it is of suffi-
clent size to enable every animal confined therein to stand
erect or to lie down at full length.

(2) No or receptacle sliall be used in ~iny bird
shop for tile confinenient of any winged animal unless-
(a)it is of sunicient size and contains sufficient.
perches for the. accommodation of all the occupants
when standing erect on the perches, or, if it is
used for the confinement of a winged animal or
animads not accustomed to stand on perches, is of
sufficient size to enable any such animal to stand
erect oil tli,- floor; and
(b)in either case, is of sufficient size to enable any
occupant to stretch its wings to their fullest extent.

35. Every bird shop sh.Al have a good supply of clean
pot-ible water for tile use of the anit-nals kept therein.

36. E-very bird shop and every cage or other accom-
modation for anin-lais kept therein shall at all times be
maintained in a clean and sanitary condition and free from
vermin.

37. The floor and any part of the walls of every bird
shop which may have become soiled by any animal kept
,therein shall be thoroughly swept and cleaned at least once
a clay and all excretory matter shall be removed from the
bird shop and from every cage therein at least once a day.

38. The inside walls and the ceiling of every bird shop,
shall be lime-washed at least otice in every three months.

39. Whenever it appears to the Urban Council that
any bird shop ot- any accommodation ot- cage therein is
in such an Insanitary condition as to cause injury or dis-
comfort to the aninials kept therein, or to an), of thern,
the holder of the licence of such bird shop shall within
48 hours after service upon him of a notice in writing





signed by the Secretary of the Urban Council cleanse and
purify the same in accordance with the, requirements of the
notice.

40. Any notice required by these regulations to be
served shall be deemed to have been sufficiently served if
the same is left with the person to whom it is addressed
or with his servant or agent at the premises specified in
the licence held by the person to whom the notice is
addressed.

PART IV.

Contraventions and Peibalties.

41. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of
regulations 2 to 19, 22 to 25, and 31 to 39 shall be liable
to a fine of five hundred dollars or, in the case of a con-
tinuing offence, the sum of fifty dollars for every day which
the offence continues.

(2) The master of any vessel shall (in addition to the
actual offender) be deemed to be guilty of any, contraven-
Lion of the regulations mentioned- in paragraph (i) which
may occur while he is on board his ship and shall be liable
to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.



CHAPTER 170.
(Ordinance No. 56 of 1936.)
WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION.

No subsidiary legislation.
Ord. 44 of 1935, s. 8 (3), Schedule, G.N. 1164/39. G.N. 557/47. G.N.A. 79/51. [r. 18 cont.] G.N. 1164/89. (Cap. 140.) G.N. 557/47. [r. 39 cont.] G.N.A. 79/51.

Ord. 44 of 1935, s. 8 (3), Schedule, G.N. 1164/39. G.N. 557/47. G.N.A. 79/51. [r. 18 cont.] G.N. 1164/89. (Cap. 140.) G.N. 557/47. [r. 39 cont.] G.N.A. 79/51.

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