Greyhound Industry (Amendment) Act, 1993
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Amendment of section 36 of Principal Act. |
3.—Section 36 of the Principal Act is hereby amended— | |
(a) by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following new subsection: | ||
“(1A) (a) The Minister may make regulations providing for— | ||
(i) the muzzling of greyhounds participating in events, and the manner of, and the type of muzzle to be used for, such muzzling, | ||
(ii) prohibiting the participation of a greyhound in an event if it is not muzzled or if the muzzling of the greyhound does not comply with the regulations, | ||
(iii) the supervision by a veterinary surgeon of hares coursed in events prior to, during and after the events, | ||
(iv) the marking, before their release into the wild, of hares after an authorised coursing meeting of such kind as the Minister may specify in the regulations, | ||
(v) prohibiting the coursing of a hare in an event if the hare has been coursed in an event at a prior authorised coursing meeting of such kind as the Minister may specify in the regulations, | ||
(vi) prohibiting the coursing of a hare in an event if it is not fit to be coursed, and | ||
(vii) the giving by a veterinary surgeon of a direction— | ||
(I) prohibiting the participation of a greyhound in an event if he considers that the muzzling of the greyhound does not comply with the regulations, | ||
(II) prohibiting the coursing of a hare in an event if he considers that the hare has been coursed in an event at a prior authorised coursing meeting of such kind as the Minister may specify in the regulations, or | ||
(III) prohibiting the coursing of a hare in an event if he considers that the hare is not fit to be coursed. | ||
(b) In this subsection— | ||
‘event’ means an event forming an item at an authorised coursing meeting of such kind as the Minister may specify in the regulations and includes a pre-coursing trial of such kind as may be specified by the Minister in the regulations, and | ||
‘veterinary surgeon’ means a registered veterinary surgeon within the meaning of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931 .”, and | ||
(b) by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection: | ||
“(2) If, in relation to an authorised coursing meeting, there is a contravention of a regulation under this section or a direction under such a regulation, the person holding the meeting and, if the direction relates to a greyhound, the owner of the greyhound shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.”. |