Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1965

Appeals.

12.—For section 14 of the Principal Act, there shall be substituted the following section :—

“14.—(1) Where an appeal is brought by the owner of an animal from any conviction or order made by the District Court under this Act or the Protection of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1965, the Court may order him not to sell or part with the animal until the appeal is determined or abandoned and to produce it on the hearing of the appeal if such production is possible without cruelty.

(2) Any person who without satisfactory excuse fails to comply with an order under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds.”